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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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1850-1899		From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to be destroyed. I had so large a boxful that it took ...Elizabeth B. Ker Harriet MartineauLife in the SickroomPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics]Tales on the Game Laws[end italics] I began, but th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauTales on the Game LawsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find ...Sydney Smith Harriet MartineauLife in the Sick RoomPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simple lady of my acquaintance that "political economy is...Catharine Sedgwick Harriet Martineauworks on political economyPrint: Book
1800-1849'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I [underlined] do [end underlining] thank you. I liked...Mary Shelley Harriet MartineauForest and Game-law TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws" I began, but they are so dull to me that I have sca...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauForest and Game-Law TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauHour and the Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected with his personal private character is very interes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addressed by H. Martineau to Moxon the publisher, .. to ...John Kenyon Harriet Martineauextract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting sea...Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauComplete Guide to the English LakesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846: 'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend them to you? Just at this moment I [italics]dare not[en...Moulton-Barrett familyHarriet MartineauForest and Game Law TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature...Antonia White Harriet Martineau[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, and wrote to a friend: "It is very good -- chiefly d...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Harriet MartineauFive Years of YouthPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old...Harriet Countess Granville Harriet Martineau'tales'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844: 'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's book [Letters on Mesmerism]. I am afraid of it. The old...Harriet Countess Granville Harriet Martineau'tales'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844): 'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebody would translate it. I have only read a chapter, wh...Harriet Countess Granville Harriet Martineau Print: Unknown
1800-1849'A most striking book, & gives abundant food for thought & admiration, one of those which to read is an epoch for the mind… I think the whole book calculated to be of gre...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau?Life in the SickroomPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is clear to me that mesmerism is not to be poo-pood, but diligently & reverently investigated'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau2nd and 3rd Letters on MesmerismPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:

'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep ...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet MartineauEastern LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, in note accompanying copy of Bronte's novel Shirley:

'When C. B. first read Deerbrook he tasted a new...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book


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