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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
 
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 January 1850:

'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" — it is very brutal and savage....		Charlotte Brontë George Henry Lewes'Currer Bell's Shirley'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘At present I am “on sick” with lumbago, a horrid name … "Land and Water" is still very optimistic. My thoughts go onward to the dim time after the war, and the polit...Ivor Bertie Gurney George Holbrook JacksonSouthward Ho! And other EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is no real objection to marrying a woman with a fortune but there is to marrying a fortune with a woman.'William Thomas George Horace LorimerLetters from a Self Made Merchant to His SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Parcels from home and Bess. Read "Letters from a Self Made Merchant to His Son" by George Horace Lorimer.'William Thomas George Horace LorimerLetters from a Self Made Merchant to His SonPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister: "...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake...anon George Jacob Holyoake Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] George John RomanesCandid Examination of Theism, APrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff George John Whyte-MelvilleThe GladiatorsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram George L. CraikPursuit of knowledge under difficultiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sorry to miss making the acquaintance of Mr Becke. Strangely enough I have been, only the other day, reading again his "Reef and Palm". Apart from the great interes...Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) BeckeBy Reef and PalmPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "The First Fleet Family" with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey)A First Fleet FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie CraikHistory of English Literature and the English Lang...Print: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)George Louis Leclerc de Buffon Print: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "I rather think, Sir, that Toryism prevails in this reign." Johnson. "I know not why you should think so, Sir. You see your friend Lord Lyttelton, a nobleman, i...Samuel Johnson George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonHistory of the Life of Henry the Second Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley sa...Robert Dodsley George Lyttelton, First Baron LytteltonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of Trinity read a paper on "The Uses of History", & ve...George Macaulay Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan'The Uses of History'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Got up late for breakfast but felt so awful that Mary took my temperature which was over 100 and sent me straight back to bed, where I remained, dozing and reading — Tre...James Lees-Milne George Macaulay TrevelyanEnglish Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries ...Print: Book
1900-1945'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A...Lawrence Durrell George Norman DouglasSouth WindPrint: Book
1900-19452 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'Virginia Woolf George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.'Emma Darwin George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacauleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843: 'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's books [...] I believe I have read almost everyone [sic...Elizabeth Barrett George Payne Rainsford JamesnovelsPrint: Book


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