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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
 
1850-1899From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble motives acting can be undertaken as a profession, we h...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Fanny KembleAutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Fanny KembleunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Fanny Kemble'Life'Print: Book
1800-1849'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining Letters as you have lately sent! - Such a description...Jane Austen Fanny KnightLettersManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.George Eliot [pseud] Fanny LewaldWandlungenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 November 1849:

'I have read the "Caxtons," I have looked at "Fanny Hervey," I think I will not write wh...		Charlotte Brontë Fanny StirlingFanny Hervey; or, the Mother's ChoicePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835: 'Thousands of thanks, dear Mr. Murray, for allowing us to read those sheets of the wonderful Fanny's "Journal" in their rough s...Lord and Lady DacreFanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of residence in America]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen enough of it to feel that she has been most unkindly...Sir Francis B. Head Fanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of residence in America]Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835): 'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellent feelings, but (may I say) not as [italics]womanl...Lady Callcott Fanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of her residence in America]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Fanny Van de Grift Van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis StevensonMore New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter Print: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Farell Lee BevanPeep of DayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'Lady Caroline Lamb Faustina Maratti ZappiDonna che tanto al mio bel sol piacestiUnknown
1900-1945'Alan taught himself to read in about thee weeks from a book called Reading without Tears.'Alan Mathison Turing Fauvel Lee MortimerReading Without TearsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscribed by Felicia Browne [...] Her juvenile production...Percy Bysshe Shelley Felicia Browne [later Hemans]PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes...Thomas Burke Felicia Hemans Print: Unknown
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1850-1899		"Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 'two poems, which had a marvellous effect on me'. The...Marianne Farningham Felicia HemansThe Better LandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Felicia Hemans[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr Henry Tighe, the widower of the poetess [Mary Tighe]. ...Henry Tighe Felicia Hemans"The Graves of a Household"Unknown
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the...Joanna Baillie Felicia HemansAmerican edition comprising two collections of poe...Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemansuncollected poemsUnknown


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