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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
 
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1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Eaton BarrettThe HeroinePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richardson, especially "Sir Charles Grandison".'Jane Austen Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Wully Carruthers Alan RamsayThe Gentle ShepherdPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Wully Carruthers [ancient and modern history]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Wully Carruthers Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A...Susan Sibbald Ann Radcliffe Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Oliver CromwellHis Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William TindalThe History and Antiquities of the Abbey and Borou...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James MacPhersonThe Poems of Ossian, the Son of FingalPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John MiltonParadise Lost: a poem in twelve booksPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adam WeishauptPythagorasPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Hewitt[conjecture] Nine Select SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge EkkehartDe prima expeditione AttilaePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlaysPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus Dillon-LeeThe Life and Opinions of Sir Richard MaltraversPrint: Book


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