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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
 
1850-1899'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...'Florence White Susan WarnerQueechyPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and the spare hour or two was passed pleasantly enough over "Ministering Children", or "Queechy" or "The Wide Wide World".'Flora Thompson Elizabeth WetherellQueechyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'Misses Jaffray Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner)QueechyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf J. E. NealeQueen ElizabethPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen Hynde' poem beginning 'As when, in ages long agone,...C.M.G. [anon] James HoggQueen HyndePrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit...Percy Wall Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Unknown
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h...Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go away in a coach at 1/2 past 8 [...] Sit up till ten reading Queen Mab'.Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Oct 31st [...] Get up at nine. Breakfast. Read a Canto of Queen Mab & Louvet's Memoirs. I am much interested in Louvet -- but like all French men he is so in...Claire Clairmont Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley is very unwell - he reads one canto of Queen Mab to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen Mab: a philosophical poem with notesManuscript: Unknown, owned by author
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 9 July 1875: 'I had bought your Play a few days before your gift-copy reached me. I have not had sufficient time to digest either...Edward Fitzgerald Alfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875: 'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly read your drama "Queen Mary," but was so surprised and ...Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart. Alfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was delicious to sit outside my tent writing to you. The inhabitants of the village showed perfect manners and left me in peace; not so the sheep who kept bunting int...Gertrude Bell Lytton StracheyQueen VictoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945I am just now reading Benson's life of Queen Victoria and can't help feeling that if we had old Lord Palmerston now he would probably close the canal and have done ...Freya Stark E. F. BensonQueen VictoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover...Henry Marriage Wallis Maurice HewlettQueen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I thank you for the Queen's Wake; since I saw you in Edinburgh I have read it. It does Mr. Hogg great credit. O...William Wordsworth James HoggQueen's Wake, TheUnknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal d...Elizabeth Marriage, Ernest Unwin & Alfred RawlingsLaurence HousmanQueen, The! God Bless HerPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's quest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyQueenie's Whim: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book


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