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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
 
1850-1899'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest sentiments. I was extremely pleased with myself & un...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three doors from Mr Kenyon in Harley Place? The new numbers...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...Frank Smythe Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been extremely interested & amused, I think there is more power in the story, & perhaps more vigor in the characters than in any of the others, rather an increas...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Arnold Joselin Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Father and Betty were talking so much about it, I am reading "Martin Chuzzlewit" again.'Emily Lytton Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I shall be glad to be out of the army. The best thing for me is brainwork again of some kind. I need something to fix my wandering thought in the morning … But must ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1900-1945'Since leaving Oxford I have had quite a little opportunity for reading and have read all kinds of things, some of the better books being: Conan Doyle's "Micah Clar...Roderick Ward Maclennan Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Martin Chuzzlewit'Sarah Good Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Novbr. [...] 14th. [...] dress and read Martin Luther with M. G[ambs]. His prayer just before presenting himself before the council at Worms is fine & full of ...Claire Clairmont WernerMartin Luther, oder die Weihe der KraftPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got the book from Mrs Bell it is Martin Rattler.'Robert Louis Stevenson R M BallantyneMartin Rattler or a Boy's Adventures in the Forest...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841: 'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago [...] Martinuzzzi is in a course of performance s...Elizabeth Barrett George StephensMartinuzziUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 October 1841: 'I have not heard from Mr Horne since he wrote to me of Martinuzzi .. A friend of mine, Mrs Orme (who liv...Dr Tom Stone George StephensMartinuzziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I think.' Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry Hart MilmanMartyr of Antioch, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end italics] of a Paris friend, and stood reading on th...Maria Weston Chapman Harriet MartineauMary and her GrandmotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.'Alfred Tennyson Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should always be 'getten'; &c. - In the midst of all my dee...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italics] time.'Mr Hibbert Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850: 'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. T...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Unknown


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