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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Emily Brontė'No Coward Soul Is Mine'Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

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2. The m...		several unnamed members of the XII Book Club Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Howard Smith Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have now struck better ground in Charlotte Bronte's "Wuthering Heights", which although melodramatic like all her books, shapes very well indeed.'Clive Staples Lewis Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'During my holiday read again Wuthering Heights . . but one can every quite recapture the first horror of contacting Heathcliff — and the voice at the window.'Vere Hodgson Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Most army hospitals acquired a varied collection of books and this ward was no exception. With plenty of time to pass in bed I naturally spent a lot of it reading,...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Emily BronteWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945M. is here deep in “Wuthering Heights”, with the ladies singing hard in the next room.Margery Morris Emily BrontėWuthering HeightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her. she seems to wants us and the world to judge it, no...Antonia White Emily ColemanTigron, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Emily Coleman[unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.Bernard Kops Emily Dickinson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'Harold Nicolson Emily DickinsonpoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Howard Smith Emily and/or Anne BrontėThe Gondal poemsUnknown
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Emily Hilda YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge Emma OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Inspired by the novels of Baroness Orczy about the Scarlet Pimpernel, I wrote a piece about Robespierre. O Robespierre, thou sea-green immobile, Thy soul, deep-stain...Charles Causley Emma Orczy[Scarlet Pimpernel novels]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter: 31 July 1837]

'Mamma read aloud all the poison for us in your last letter. I suppose she thought M. Moulton's compliments will not ruin us for life.'		Emma Wedgwood Emma Sismondi[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart Emmanuel Las CasesMemorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private ...Print: Book
1900-1945'There travels with them an agreeable man called Pontremoli, who wrote an excellent book on the temple of Apollo Didymus. I've just read the book and I shall see the temp...Gertrude Bell Emmanuel Pontremoli (and Bernard HaussoullierDidymes: Fouilles de 1895 et 1896Print: Book


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