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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
 
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.'Charlotte Bronte Ellen NusseynoteManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as she cannot bear that you should remain any longer un...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen Nussey[account of Anne Bronte's death]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842: 'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by Ellen Pickering], it was not achieved by the nove...Elizabeth Barrett Ellen PickeringnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The book came in the middle of a storm of wind & rain o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen RaynardMissing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock Ellen Wood[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Ellen WoodunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Reading East Lynne’George Adcock Weston Ellen WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was delighted with Miss Glasgow's novel ["Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage"]; the insight, the mastery of her craft, the interest and charm of the na...Joseph Conrad Ellen (Anderson Gholson) GlasgowLife and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's CouragePrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerThe FarringdonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerConcerning Isabel CarnabyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope.
Heaven on earth incline your head to move in charity Rest in Providence + turn upon the poles of truth.
What is love. Madne...		William Thomas Ellen Thorneycroft FowlerThe Wisdom of FollyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa, Lady Stuart Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa Clinton Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the"Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely ...Gertrude Bell Elmer L. RiceThe Adding MachinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue, 21.XI.44
    A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last mee...		Elsie Harrod Elsie Harrod[on the housing question: proposing that no house ...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Have been reading a book in the modern manner about Moses. Cannot help but see a parallel between Churchill and Moses — and between us and the Children of Israel. In ...Vere Hodgson Elspeth Boog-WatsonThe Story of MosesPrint: Book
1900-1945"Just read Atlantic Ordeal, the account of Mary Cornish's eight days in the Atlantic with the little boys from the City of Benares, in the lifeboat. Gets no better on r...Vere Hodgson Elspeth HuxleyAtlantic Ordeal: The Story of Mary CornishPrint: Book
1850-1899'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole bo...Oscar Wilde Elzabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, "The Neuroses in War", published by the Tavistock Cl...Vera Brittain Emanuel MillerThe Neuroses in WarPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Emanuel SwedenborgThe Wisdom of Angels concerning Divine Love and Di...Print: Book


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