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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
 
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe...Constance Smedley Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Low...Constance Smedley James Russell Lowell Print: Unknown
1850-1899Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87-9: 'It was a real penance to him, and I could under...Robert Sherard advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lecturesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Reise-BilderPrint: Book
1850-1899'... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t...Oscar Wilde Pocket German dictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'"Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of these which she kept tied up in flat parcels, ready... unknownPrincess NovelettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'Mary Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...'Mary Gladstone Julia KavanaghAdelePrint: Book
1850-1899'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe...William Ewart Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ...Mrs Swan Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Doctor's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took...George Moore George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...'William Ewart Gladstone Hall CaineThe ScapegoatPrint: Book
1850-1899On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...'Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel RossettiThe King's TragedyUnknown
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Tobias Smollett[unknown]Print: Book


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