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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
 
1800-1849Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parla...George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista CastiNovelle AmorosePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle Francesco SoaveNovelle MoraliPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Charlotte, Anne, Emily BrontenovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S...Robert Blatchford Mary Elizabeth BraddonnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson George EliotnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Edward Bulwer LyttonnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson William Makepeace ThackeraynovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Nathaniel HawthornenovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in th...George MeredithNovelsPrint: Book
'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Park...Joseph Parker Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...Edward Prince of Wales Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...George Duke of York Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."Gilbert Frankau Nat GouldnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your...Patrick Bronte Elizabeth GaskellnovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H...Frances Burney novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss...Thomas Paley Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and...anon Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, he read aloud to the family the novels of Dickens and...anon George EliotnovelsPrint: Book


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