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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
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotRomolaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'Joyce Heelas George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss Angus [?] gave readings from Romola'Miss Angus [?] George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Paul MaraudRond Point des Champs Elys?esPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age: "Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1850-1899'"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun t...H.M. Tomlinson William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I i...Charles Dickens William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whole afternoon and evening of prep in which I (most regrettably) finished "Roper's Row".'Hilary Spalding Warwick DeepingRoper's RowPrint: Book
1850-1899Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel LoverAlbert Battiscombe Samuel LoverRory O'MorePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getting back [of] "Rosalind & Helen" an excuse for call...anon Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen, a Modern EcloguePrint: Book
1800-1849'Copy S's Eclogue - Read Horace'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen: a Modern EclogueManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...children of Anne RomillyMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, sa...Maria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'Claire Clairmont Maria EdgeworthRosamond: A Sequel to Early LessonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. The...Jane Austen Laetitia Matilda HawkinsRosanne; or, a Father's Labour LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. The...Anna Lefroy Laetitia Matilda HawkinsRosanne; or, a Father's Labour LostPrint: Book


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