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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.'Hugh Walpole Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'Andrew Lang Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'Edward Morgan Forster Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of his life.'Gordon Hewart Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...'Lady Cynthia Asquith Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.'Cardinal John Henry Newman Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that h...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Zealand and Australian soliders in South Africa during...New Zealand and Australian soldiersMarie CorelliThe Soul of LilithPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent Robert Louis Stevenson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent John Ruskin[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent William Morris[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of Longfellow, Stevenson, Ruskin, William Morris and C...questionaire respondent Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)'Constance Smedley Louisa May AlcottLittle WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.'Hall Caine The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...Edward Prince of Wales Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...George Duke of York Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."Gilbert Frankau Nat GouldnovelsPrint: Book


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