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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'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Emma Darwin] was especially devoted to Jane Austen's novels and almost knew them by heart... Scott was also a perennial favourite, especially ''The Antiquary''. Mrs...Emma Darwin William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter vol...Florence Nightingale Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen Print: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing sourc...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have b...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Mary] reads the curse of Kehama while Shelley walks out with Peacock who dines.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyThe Curse of KehamaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'She [Mona Limerick, South American-born actor being considered for the leading female role in "Victory"] had excellent notices in J[osé] Echegarray's play ("Cleansing St...unknown  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the commentators upon Shakespeare [transcribes note on Mon...Joseph Hunter Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley and Clara begin Orlando Furioso'.Percy Shelley and Claire ClairmontLodovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Matthew Gregory LewisThe Monk: a romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley finishes Mary a fiction'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftMary, a fictionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire'Mary Godwin Voltaire (pseud.)[possibly] Romans et contesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Mary Shelley Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Percy Bysshe Shelley Pietro Antonio SerassiLa vita di Torquato TassoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley has finished the life of Tasso & reads Dante - read Pamela'Percy Bysshe Shelley Dante Alighieri[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley is not well - he reads Lucan'Percy Bysshe Shelley LucanBellum Civile / PharsaliaPrint: Book


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