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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
 
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'The school library had a reasonably wide selection – we could take out one fiction and one non-fiction a week but the English teacher would vet ...Hilary Spalding Hervey AllenAnthony AdversePrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Hesba StrettonLittle Meg's ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Hesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories ...children and mothersHesba StrettonJessica's First PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Hesba Stretton[pious novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Hesba StrettonThe Christmas ChildPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Hesiod unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Hester Chapone Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses, Mr Richardson has been so good as to shew them to m...Catherine Talbot Hester MulsoversesUnknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:] 'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming Odes of Miss Mulso's, and admire them more and more...Thomas Edwards Hester Mulso'Odes'Unknown
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:] 'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'.Thomas Edwards Hester MulsosonnetUnknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish Hester Piozzibiography of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish Hester Piozzibiography of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy...Anne Lutton Hester Ann RogersSpiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the ExperiPrint: Book
1800-1849I wanted to have sent you a translation of the Epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's, and inserted in Piozzi's anecdotes - but my father has lent, &...Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziAnecdotes of the Late Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic] I shall not.'Jane Austen Hester Lynch PiozziLetters to and from the late Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'The book is one huge mass of entertainment from beginning to end - And written in such an unaffected spirit of Christian charity...'Sarah Harriet Burney Hester Lynch PiozziObservations and Reflections Made in the Course of...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziAnecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziRetrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking an...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziObservationsPrint: Book


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