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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
 
1850-1899'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CuthbertsonSanto Sebastiano: or, The Young ProtectorPrint: Book
1850-1899'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them'the ScottsWilliam Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pe...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhewellFraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorla...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland C...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Leader, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cott...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Charlotte Bronte [reviews of Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Patrick Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'They used to read to each other when they had written so much. Their father never knew a word about it.'the Bronte sisters Bronte[works by all three sisters]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own behalf'.Fanny Elizabeth GaskellLibbie Marsh's Three ErasPrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies neares...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Denison Maurice[Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Caroline Emelia StephenPassages in the life of a Daughter at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane[review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Da...Print: Serial / periodical



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