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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'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Washington IrvingThe Sketchbook of Geoffrey CrayonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essays]Print: Book
1850-1899[Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse], because they never wanted any other book'Elizabeth Darwin Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in ...Gwen Raverat Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin Homer  Print: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe Print: Book
1850-1899'[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea...William Darwin [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin William Shakespeare[Histories]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin Geoffrey Chaucer Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin (ed.) Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't b...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re...Henry James magazines and newspapersPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re...Henry James Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have just been reading it."Henry James A. W. KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James The British ChroniclePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou...Henry James bound weekly newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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