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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
 
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to his wife Emily, 13 July 1852: 'I am reading lots of novels. The worst is they do not last longer than the day. I am such a fierce reader I think I h...Alfred Tennyson novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson Jane Austennovels Print: Book
1850-1899'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wilde admired the author's humour and his gift for caric...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza litera...Oscar Wilde Benjamin DisraelinovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18): 'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord Abercorn thinks them next to W. Scott's (if they [i.e...Lord Abercorn Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Edmund Burke Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Charles James Fox Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is exhausted and palled, by our modern feelings. The best test of their worth...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ann RadcliffenovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I meanwhile have been doing nothing except read Jane Austen. I have stopped seeing people for a week, as it hurts the voice to talk much, but had one visit from the...Freya Stark Jane AustenNovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Tales of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson Walter Scottnovels including Old MortalityPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither...Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-Lyttonnovels including The DisownedPrint: Book
1800-1849''We talked a great deal of our poor friend, Lady E[-], and lady [-] said she thought the portrait of Imogen, in the Novice of St Dominic, was a fac-simile of her charact...Lady [-] Sydney OwensenNovice of St Dominic, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BaconNovum OrganumPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809); an...anon William MudfordNubilia in Search of a HusbandPrint: Book
1700-1799'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains of his Ancestor under the Title "Nugae Antiquae", w...Frances Burney Henry HarringtonNugae AntiquaePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles LloydNugae CanoraePrint: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake Numbers 24:13Print: Book
1700-1799Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book


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