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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'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle James BeresfordMiseries of Human LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read and finish miseries of human life'Mary Shelley James BeresfordMiseries of Human Life; or, the Groans of Samuel S...Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c...Mr Creighton Mary Augusta WardMiss BrethertonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."Henry James Mrs Humphry WardMiss BrethertonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of th...Henry James Vernon LeeMiss BrownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of th...Henry James Vernon LeeMiss BrownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists ...Arnold Bennett William Edwards TirebuckMiss Grace of All SoulsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel tha...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyMiss GrantPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding E.F. BensonMiss MappPrint: Book
1900-1945'Went to Rye one lovely hot day. Glorious Sussex cottages covered with roses. Brought E. F. Benson's book with me. Lamb House, where he lived, had been bombed — but ...Vere Hodgson Edward Frederic BensonMiss MappPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got them and if you like I will send them to you. They are very wonderful [underlin...Alfred Tennyson Harriet MartineauMiss Martineau on MesmerismPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Janet Rawlings E. H. YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1900-1945'On the last day of my thirtieth year on earth I am writing a few lines. Have moved a mile or so and am now in a nice little village, the name of which I must not s...Thomas Wainwright Charlotte MoorMiss VaughanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The book came in the middle of a storm of wind & rain o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen RaynardMissing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Another book: Missing Believed Prisoner, is by a South African captured at Sidi Rezegh. Those awful marches through the desert with no food or water. The Camp with sta...Vere Hodgson N. I. RobinsonMissing, Believed Prisoner: The Story of a South A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Sydney OwensonMissionary, The: An Indian TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Howard Smith Henry Marriage WallisMistakes of Miss ManistyUnknown
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: '[William Gifford] [...], meeting Tennyson for the first time, ventured to remark on the truth of [Locksley...Alfred Tennyson MoallakatPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book


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