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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'S. reads a part of the Shepherds Calender [sic] aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breere, and the other in his May of the Fox and the Kid a...Hester Lynch Thrale Edmund SpenserShepheardes Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d...Joseph Mayett Hannah MoreShepherd of Salisbury PlainPrint: Book, Pamphlet, chapbooks
1800-1849'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many opportunities of hearing much about him.'James Glass Bertram James HoggShepherd's CalendarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously ...James Hogg James HoggShepherd's Calendar, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first impression being that there is a considerable "inside...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Shifting of the FirePrint: Book
1700-1799'There is an old English and Latin book of poems by Barclay, called "The Ship of Fools"; at the end of which are a number of [italics] Eglogues [end italics]; so he write...Samuel Johnson Alexander BarclayShip of Fools, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson
Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'		William Thomas William Wymark JacobsShip's CompanyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'Mary Shelley John G. DalyellShipwrecks and Disasters at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes."Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.'Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...'Mary Taylor Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighle...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it is so true and brave, that I greatly admire her.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wrote Jane Eyre'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me of Mr Nicholls, & also with what she herself has said...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book


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