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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 G. H. Lewes, 23 November 1850:

'I am glad to hear that Miss Martineau's little story in the "Leader" touched you and made you cry. I th...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet Martineau[Short story]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 23 November 1850:

'I am glad to hear that Miss Martineau's little story in the "Leader" touched you and made you cry. I th...		George Henry Lewes Harriet Martineau[Short story]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Talking of this, my Sara, what d’ye think / (To ask the question is but waste of Ink) / Of Harriet Martineau’s political novels? / Fine food, forsooth, for starving pa...Hartley Coleridge Harriet Martineau[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I did enjoy my visit to Miss Martineau very much [...] I rather tremble at the anticipation of a ...		Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau and H. G. AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Social NatureUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I did enjoy my visit to Miss Martineau very much [...] I rather tremble at the anticipation of a ...		Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau and H. G. AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Social NatureUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, I cannot now think it will create any outcry. You a...Charlotte Bronte Harriet Martineau and H.G. AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Developmen...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 20 September 1851:

'Of all the articles respecting which you question me I have seen none, except that notable one i...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet Taylor'Enfranchisement of Women'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Friday, 9 December 1825: 'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson [...] She must have been assis...Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson.'Walter Scott Harriet WilsonMemoirsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Letters on the Nature and Development of Man?" ... It ...Charlotte Bronte Harriet and H. G. Martineau and AtkinsonLetters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Developmen...Print: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped', 'Little Women', 'David Copperfield', 'Ivanhoe', 'Ro...Patricia Beer Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Harriet Beecher Stowe Print: Book
1850-1899"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'"Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...'Queen Victoria Harriet Beecher StoweDred: A Tale of the Dismal SwampPrint: Book
1850-1899' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature cannot be denied, and of course I read it" ...'Lady Frances Balfour Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with Mrs. Stowe, in the N[orth]. A[merican]. R[eview]. I ...Henry James Harriet Beecher Stowe[two or three works]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I ... pursued my way ... to the village of Splugen, wher...Henry James Harriet Beecher StoweOld Town FolksPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is a novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which I should not omit to mention, since it made a great sensation when it appeared, and it was the only book of its class brough...Peter Burt Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book


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