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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 Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- re...Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at t...Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace ThackerayLecturesPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..."Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Brontenote to Ellen NusseyManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilkie CollinsHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Priso...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading...George Eliot and G.H. LewesCharles DickensHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Priso...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Macbeth".'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899" ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although ...Annabel Huth Jackson Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c...Winnie Seerbohm John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t...Female American travelling-companions French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... storiesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte...M. C. Mondy storiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when r...English class, Queen's CollegeRichard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Little DukePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo...Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler  Print: Unknown


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