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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
 
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs...Howard R. Smith Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'admirable in design, execution, story & delineation of character. I only allow myself these pleasant readings when in bed'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'I will tell you what I want to do; it is to show you the first volume of my MS. [Shirley...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 26 September 1850:

'Rumour says we are to expect from you a Christmas Book [...] If the report about the Christmas B...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stewart" after breakfast but Dr Fiffe interrupted me, an...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerMary StewartPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...Elizabeth Inchbald William GodwinMary WollstonecraftPrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction"Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'We go out on the rocks & Shelley & I read part of Mary a fiction'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftMary, A FictionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1814 - since all these titles are mentioned in journal entries, they are not given separate database entries from this source] 'Mary. ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary: a FictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Mary - a fiction'Mary Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary: a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Jalaluddin ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone JalaluddinMasnaviPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady Strachey read to us -- to me for the most part, as L[eonard]. was late. She...Jane Maria, Lady Strachey Ben JonsonmasquesPrint: Book
1600-1699'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Masse BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...Mary Robson Leo TolstoyMaster and ManPrint: Book
1600-1699'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pa...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pa...Print: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliMaster ChristainPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert Louis StevensonMaster of Ballantrae, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Frederick MarryatMasterman ReadyPrint: Book


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