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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845: 'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter. I read my French abomination at breakfast & dinner...Mary Russell Mitford Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...		Charlotte Brontë Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met...George Gordon, Lord Byron A. L. CastellanMoeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de...Print: Book
1850-1899'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book ["Mogreb-el-Acksa"] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it pa...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamMogreb-el-AcksaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance. Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approaching it has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" ["Pers...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamMogreb-el-AcksaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Francois Rene de ChateaubriandMoïsePrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling b...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Howard Smith anon Mollie MogUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845: 'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce ..: and for impulsive gaiety, he has not his peer. ...Elizabeth Barrett Paul de KockMon Ami Piffard; et ChipolataPrint: Book
1700-1799'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B...Mary Wollstonecraft Louis Sebastien MercierMon Bonnet de NuitPrint: Book
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr...Margaret Oliphant Graham TraversMona Maclean: Medical StudentPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMonastery, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'Charles Manby Smith [n/a]MoniteurPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Calais, 26 July 1815: 'I wish you could see them at breakfast: Hart [brother] with one leg maki...Lord Granville MoniteurPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and views up together, like Beaverbrook's dirty rags do.' MonitorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Antonin Besse Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
1900-1945He [M. Besse] took me and Mrs Ingrams for a longish walk yesterday, over the crater edge and down to the sea...M. Besse and I bathed regardless of the sharks, of wh...Freya Stark Maurice MaeterlinckMonna VannaPrint: Book
Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted ...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley SheridanMonody on GarrickUnknown
1800-1849Extract from Byron's Monody on the Death of SheridanBowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronMonody on the Death of the Right Hon. R.B. Sherida...Unknown
1800-1849'Extract from Byron's Monody on the death of Sheridan' [transcript of text]Emma Bowly George Gordon, Lord ByronMonody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. S...Unknown


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