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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
 
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1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Samuel Taylor Coleridge[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart George Crabbe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the 'Pall Mall Gazaette' etc] quickly enough. "Three ...Mary Augusta Ward [French and Spanish books]Print: Book
1800-1849'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off ...Hannah Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the Scriptures']Print: Book
1900-1945'She did take to reading me The Little Matchgirl rather more frequently as time went on. Maybe she hoped that I would learn to read as a means of avoiding that particular...Rosemary Sutcliff Hans Christian AndersenLittle Match Girl, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Eaton BarrettThe HeroinePrint: Book
1800-1849'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [papers and correspondence]Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.
1900-1945'She goes on: "I read the advertisements stating margarine's superiority to butter with a quiet smile, and a mental thought of 'I don't think!' I think my sales-resistanc... advertisements about margarinePrint: Advertisement
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'Mary Augusta Ward Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont Print: Book
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindled by the relationship between the two'Mary Augusta Ward François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand Print: Book
1850-1899'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are almost more beautiful than any others of Miss Bronte...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scarf on her head. With her she brought two blankets, tw... unknownunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][history]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards [unknown][great poets' works]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Bayley[Dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently completed biography of General Booth, "God's Soldier...Winifred Holtby St. John ErvineGod's SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and un...Vera Brittain Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book, Unknown


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