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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalUnknown
1800-1849'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be sad, and I think it ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sylvester JuddMargaret, a Tale of the Real and the IdealPrint: Book
1800-1849'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set ...Austen FamilyMrs S. SykesMargiana, or Widdrington TowerPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass in some lovely valley near Cauteretz, had read alou...Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh CloughMari MagnoManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red Lion, taking with me for my amusement there & in the...John Marsh [anon]Maria or The VicaragePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] We [himself and his brother William] ... commenced s...Henry James Friedrich von SchillerMaria StuartPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [......Elizabeth Barrett J. C. F. von SchillerMaria StuartPrint: Book
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerMaria StuartPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Maria Stuart'Sarah Good Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerMaria StuartPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Wrongs of Woman'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMaria, or The Wrongs of WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace...Catherine Talbot Edward KimberMaria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of r...Print: Book
1700-1799'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: As the vex'd oceean [sic] working in a storm Off brin...Gertrude Savile Elijah FentonMariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: 'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very little. His "Marianna" has power in its way [...] but...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard Sylvain Jules SandeauMariannaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American'Harriet Martineau BeaumontMariePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenMarie GrubePrint: Book
1850-1899'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'John Ruskin [unknown]MariegolaPrint: Book
1700-1799'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.'Anna Larpent Pierre MarivauxMariennePrint: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneMarino FalieroPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905: 'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.'Edward Morgan Forster Walter PaterMarius the EpicureanPrint: Book


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