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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
 
1900-1945'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the greatest possible interest. I think it's simply wonde...Joseph Conrad Jan Tadeusz Zuk-SkarszewskiRumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid'...Print: Book
1800-1849'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very differen...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora Thompson Jane Austen Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietyJane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'Cassandra Austen Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Book in Manuscript
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Jane Austen Print: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'Edward Morgan Forster Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go...Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book


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