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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'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Crabbe Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural scenery and the thoughts and feelings arising from th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Wiiliam Howitt Print: Book
1800-1849'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Holland[Exercise book]Print: Book
1800-1849'Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed myself in listening'.William Gaskell [lectures on poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on some of those deserrted old halls. Do they not remind...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Deserted House, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers to a rhapsodic description of alpine scenery encoun...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received callers, listened to Thekla's magnificent playing-' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauHour and the Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out with the girls - round the grounds - a good long walk; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'Today Mr Shaen has been reading a sermon to us' Mr Shaen [a sermon]Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the person I'm talking with always in order to hear some conv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.' Mary Holland Henry TaylorNotes From Books, in Four EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Holland has just received 'Notes from Books' from her friend Henry Taylor and said she liked them as well as 'Friends in Council'.' Mary Holland Arthur HelpsFriends in Council: A Series of Readings and Disco...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have just seen advertised in the new Edinburgh'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Revi...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Hopley'; it is a series of most unnatural adventures, ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not that sentence unbecoming in a minister's wife?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper


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