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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
 
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasure. I never was so much taken with anything. The t...John Wilson Croker CrabbeTalesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The town soon went wild about the story [Evelina] [...] Mrs. Thrale read it, and liked it better than Madame Riccoboni's Tales [...] she lent it to Dr. Johnson. He was...Hester Thrale Madame RiccoboniTalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Hans Christian AndersenTales (unspecified collection)Print: Book
1900-1945'When I came home from the office where I worked, I went straight to my room, took out the cheap edition of "Tales Grotesque and Arabesque", and began to read.'Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan PoeTales Arabesque and GrotesquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John and Michael BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John and Michael BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certainly exonerate the Anglo Irish from the charge of im...Mary Shelley John BanimTales by the O'Hara FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tales from Shakespeare".'Spike Mays Charles LambTales from ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'George Crabbe George CrabbeTales from the HallManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My eldest girl begins to read well and enters as well into the humour as into the sentiment of your admirable descriptions of human life'Sophia Scott George CrabbeTales in versePrint: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - ...Mary Leadbeter George CrabbeTales in VersePrint: Book
1900-1945

'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.


[Conrad then makes several comments indicatin...

Joseph Conrad Gerald Cumberland (pseud.)Charles Frederick KenyonTales of a Cruel CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Maria EdgeworthTales of a Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a copy of the Imitation of Christ extant, given to Charlotte [Bronte] in 1826, and there are other books that we know the [Bronte] children read during this per...Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)Walter ScottTales of a GrandfatherPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 28 March 1828: 'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a ringing. He really is entitled to the name of an Anti...Walter Scott James ThomsonTales of an AntiquaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Friday, 10 March 1826: 'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has written a book of poetry, Tales of Chivalry and Romance...Walter Scott Captain George LongmoreTales of Chivalry and RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxio...Charles Robert Maturin Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I said so, that it had struck her directly.'Sarah Harriet Burney Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether t...Sir William Elford Maria EdgeworthTales of Fashionable LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book


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