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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
 
1850-1899'Eric, - oh my dear Harrie I have always been meaning to read it,& never have. You see I was out of the house at Heidelberg when Marianne & Julia read it'.Marianne and Julia GaskellFrederick William FarrerEricPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Christie's Faith, by the author of "Owen, a Waif," is...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Frederick William RobinsonChristie's FaithPrint: Book
1800-1849'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: but the latter part about Socialism, Mesmerism, and al...Harriet Martineau and neighbourFrederika BremerBrothers and SistersPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842: 'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Neighbours" instead of my own?I mean of the very charm...Elizabeth Barrett Frederika BremerThe Neighbours: A Story of Everyday LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843: 'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swedish, "The Home" charms me even more than "The Nei...Elizabeth Barrett Frederika BremerThe Home: or, Family Cares and Family JoysPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "The Neighbours," and really you are the only person...Mary Russell Mitford Frederika BremerThe Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Frederika BremerHerthaPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 1 February 1849:

'The parcel [of books, from Williams] came yesterday [...] The choice of books is perfect...		Anne Brontë Frederika BremerThe H— FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Frederika BremerThe NeighboursPrint: Book
1800-1849'[In Germany] C[oleridge] read [Frederika] Brun's Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange, which provided the inspiration for his Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frederika BrunChamouny beym SonnenaufgangeUnknown
1700-1799'In examining a fig which we had found at our last going ashore, we found in the fruit a "Cynips", very like, if not exactly the same species as "Cynips sycomori", Linn.,...Joseph Banks Fredrik HasselquistIter PalestinumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Mary S. Stansfield Freya StarkLetters from SyriaPrint: Book
1900-1945We woke up to-day to see the coast of Yemen, the Indian Ocean very blue, and were presently sailing into the bay of Aden. As I went into the saloon for passports, M...Stewart Henry Perowne Freya StarkBaghdad SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Fridtjof Nansen[Travels - probably 'Farthest North']Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'Mary Shelley Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte FouqueUndine, eine ErzahlungPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Friedrich BouterwekGeschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li...John Brown Friedrich Engels Print: Book
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Peasant War in GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised a...Edith Sitwell Friedrich EngelsConditions of the Working Classess in EnglandPrint: Book


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