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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 in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Hammond InnesAttack AlarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am enjoying Moule's "Veni Creator".'Albert Ruskin Cook Handley Carr Glyn MouleVeni CreatorPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1700-1799'This morning we had from the Library the Maid of Arragon, a Tale by Mrs. Cowley, ? & Mrs. Thrale began reading it aloud, ? & the first thing was a [ital]poetical address...Hester Thrale Hannah CowleyThe Maid of ArragonPrint: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Mr Dilly Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Print: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Samuel Johnson Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Print: Book
1700-1799A number of recipes copied from 'First Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy', by Hannah Glasse,1747. For example: 'To boile...Mary Bacon Hannah GlasseFirst Catch your Hare, The Art of Cookery made Pla...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of England, I have read -- & they seemed to me to show...Elizabeth Barrett Hannah LawranceHistorical Memoirs of the Queens of England from t...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispensations of providence... those kinds of books were o...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreThe Shepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early July [1809], when "I read about 40 pages in the 1st. v...Thomas De Quincey Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleridge] that "it is one of the very poorest sort of com...Charles Lamb Hannah MoreCoelebs in Search of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too...Charles Robert Maturin Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1700-1799[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mor...Frances Burney Hannah MoreCoelebs in search of a wifePrint: Book
1700-1799'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power of virtue on the mind is well contrasted with the ma...Anna Larpent Hannah MorePercyPrint: Book
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreShepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbooks
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreFarmer's firesidePrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreDiscontented pendulumPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbook
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though by very little bits at a time, to go entirely through...Mary Berry Hannah MoreStrictures on the Modern System of Female Educatio...Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote very lately when she was with [the Bishop of London...Horace Walpole Hannah More[verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's rece...Harriot Webb Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book


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