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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
 
1800-1849'Here is a sort of little standard library kept - Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, & a few foreign books, & we sit and read & dream our time away'Elizabeth and William Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'Wm read his first 2 lectures on Poetry &c aloud which people seemed very much to like & I lay on the sofa & enjoyed myself in listening'.William Gaskell [lectures on poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received callers, listened to Thekla's magnificent playing-' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out with the girls - round the grounds - a good long walk; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'Today Mr Shaen has been reading a sermon to us' Mr Shaen [a sermon]Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have just seen advertised in the new Edinburgh'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Revi...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not that sentence unbecoming in a minister's wife?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in Aug. 1940 -- that the air raids are now at their pre...Virginia Woolf ScrutinyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have seen a newspaper published by the [Wilmington] committee's order, where the whole story of the battle [of Bunker Hill] is denied, tho' it is said that the America...Janet Schaw newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully just at this time.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Household Words [?]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot tell you how much use it has been to me; my paper mark...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [book on Yorkshire]Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger Fry].'s lectures, out at last, a life of Erasmus & ...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I meant to record a Third Class Railway carriage conversation. The talk of business men. Their male detached lives. All politics. Deliberate, well...Third class railway passengers The Evening StandardPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of intelligence, which come, with their pleasant [italics] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [verses]Unknown
1850-1899'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Bombay Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Homeward Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical


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