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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East ...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I rea...Mary Ann Evans Mary Finlay CrossstoryUnknown
1850-1899'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or painted verbal scenery, a practice at which I became v...George Acorn George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil"...Frederick Rogers Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil"...Frederick Rogers Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thank...James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMeditationsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseyLyrics of LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less full of poetic power and beauty."Samuel Smiles Gerald MasseySongs of ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857), which include "corrections and contradict...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'After reading the first volume [of Mrs Ward's "Robert Elsmere"] he [William Arnold] wrote to Mrs Arnold, "You may look forward to finding yourself the mother of a famous...William Arnold Mary Augusta WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and general horrors. I sat next to a Mr Amiel - prounounce...Mr Amiel Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His Friends (1888), with inserts including letters and ...anon Mrs Henry SandfordThomas Poole and His FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thucydides in Godalming one day and was delighted to fi...Mary Ward Thucydides Print: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward Étienne Pivert de Senancour Print: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward HoraceEpistlesPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasan...Sir Walter Raleigh Horace WalpoleCastle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio PellicoPrisonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came across the news of the death of Bradshaw in the papers just now.'Sir Walter Raleigh n/a[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.'Sir Walter Raleigh James MartineauTypes of Ethical TheoryPrint: Book


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