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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I have been reading Sidney Biddulph. Grosvenor what a mass of misery do prejudices occasi...Robert Southey Frances SheridanMemoirs of Miss Sydney Biddulph Print: Book
1850-1899?Your letter came this morning. I own I am troubled about its contents: I fear for your health, dear friend, in such an ordeal as that to which you propose to subject you...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].
1850-1899'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'Albert Battiscombe Frances TrollopeThe Lottery of Marriage. A novel.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeDomestic Manners of the AmericansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837: 'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the extrac...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeThe Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeOne Fault. A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very clever -- and besides I want you to send me the l...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeThe Blue Belles of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842: 'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Belles -- and so far as I can guess at Mrs Trollope's...Mary Russell Mitford Frances TrollopeThe Blue Belles of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842: 'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying. But I do w...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeThe Barnabys in AmericaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do you know I could have been obstinate in my self-pers...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeLetter to Mary Russell MitfordManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843: 'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the construction of ...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeHargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of FashionPrint: Book
1900-1945Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages." "...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe Laurringtons; or, superior peoplePrint: Book
1900-1945"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and rer...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1900-1945"Read June 19 1947".Charles Philips Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope the work will be liked; and I think it stands a very f...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Am charmed to find "The Diary" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - the [underlined] first [end underlining], to own the ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow through the tautology and vanity of the first volume...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837: 'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum, are very beautiful -- and so are some others whic...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne ButlerThe Star of SevillePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end italics] unequal -- it appears as if its writer st...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne ButlerThe Star of SevillePrint: Book


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