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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke Thomas Otway Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke John Dryden Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thursday, 1 March 1827: 'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Histori...Walter Scott Horace WalpoleHistoric Doubts on Richard IIIPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge VossLouisaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Walter Scott to John Murray, 23 March 1818: 'I laid Kirkton aside when half finished, from a desire to get the original edition of the "Lives of Cameron," &c., by Patr...Walter Scott Patrick Walker'Lives of Cameron [etc]'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn 'Grecian history and antiquity'Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Account of Mary Robinson's deathbed, from the 'Continuation by a Friend' of her memoirs: 'Pressing to her heart her daughter [...] she held her head for some minutes c...Mary Robinson  Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Cowper Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Samuel JohnsonProse writingsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were nev...Jane Austen Jane Austenfiction writingsPrint: 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...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: 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 EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: 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 EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: 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
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 Edgeworth[?The] Purple JarPrint: Book


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