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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[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding C.O. SkinnerOur Hearts were Young and GayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on hand but life is nothing without the fight. I feel I a...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisOur Mr WrennPrint: Book
1800-1849'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840: 'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my steps...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: '[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright-tempered & feeling-hearted, -- more to me than a me...Miss Crow Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. Are you aware how very little the idea of writing of ...Eleanor Anne Franklin Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the li...Felicia Hemans Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from...Frances Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in Suffold, and I greeted your boys as old acquaintances...Susanna Strickland Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling of intimate acquaintance, a deep and affectionate i...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her ...Kate Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to ...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his bed by illness. He laughed and cried by turns, and a...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your w...Mary Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been wending this winter. We had read them before, and many...Mary and William HowittMary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, fu...Alfred Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, fu...Miss Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1850-1899'Our Village'Sarah Good Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do however [...]'Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas Medwinournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1850-1899'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him quite tolerably.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingPrint: Book


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