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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
 
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begi...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'Joyce Heelas George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'Miss Angus [?] George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot" with "some appreciation of style", enough to recog...George Acorn George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
1850-1899'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of you, & am so greedy to read it I can scarcely be gra...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of the Early English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Scott admired [George Ellis's] Specimens of the Early English Poets and Specimens of Early English Romances, and their common interests drew them into close and friend...Walter Scott George EllisSpecimens of Early English RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.' Claire Clairmont George FarquharLove and a BottlePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 16th. [...] Read Plays by Farquhar.'Claire Clairmont George FarquharplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"'George Eliot George FinlayA History of GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...James Boswell George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...Samuel Johnson George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle George FoxHistorical Account of the Life, Travels,...of Geor...Print: Book
1500-1599[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore ha...Gabriel Harvey George GascoigneThe PosiesPrint: Book
1500-1599'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon'Margaret Hoby George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1500-1599'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: sone after I went to breakfast'Richard Rhodes George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary scope to his education: '"I read "Robinson Crusoe...Charles Shaw George GifillanThe Bards of the BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the ...Thomas Burke George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: Book


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