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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
 
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I complain of Florence for the want of books -- we have to dig & dig before we can get anything new...Robert Browning newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching in girls' private schools.'Vera Brittain newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 February 1828: 'I have not read the debates [...] I have no zest at all in politics one way or the other, ...Harriet Countess Granville NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 23 June 1837: 'I hope Granville [husband] will be well enough to pay a visit to England [...] but ...Leveson Gower family newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741: 'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see nothing that busies the public, except now and then a ...Aaron Hill newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for some good account of those I knew and esteemed at Lisb...Margaret Collier newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one day that movements are taking place amon...Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat chocolate.[...] Among the papers I had received by ...Frank Smythe newspapers and weekly magazinesPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen LiedPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 21 November 1846: 'We have seen your professor once since you left us [...] when he came in one evening & caught...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningMarchese Massimo Tapparelli D'AzeglioNiccolo de' LapiPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'. Gerald Moore Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.Sydney Smith Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday because I had no brain left. It wasn’t so bad in its c...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to their opinion".'John Ruskin Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'C. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby'Sarah Good Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book


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