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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'We have been extremely interested & amused, I think there is more power in the story, & perhaps more vigor in the characters than in any of the others, rather an increas...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a little and then had tea, and after tea a number of the ch...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'.Romilly FamilyRichard Lovell EdgeworthReadings on poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'we have been much pleased with it… it is clear, well put together, skillfully developed, & the argument for a complete change of ecclesiastical policy comes out all but ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Charles GrevillePast and Present Policy of England Towards IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHiawathaPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all the world, you know; but parts of it suit me better ...Jane Austen Robert SoutheyPoet's Pilgrimage to WaterlooPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie FamiliePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlLand Und VolkPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie Burgerliche GesellschaftPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilkie CollinsHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Priso...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading...George Eliot and G.H. LewesCharles DickensHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Priso...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We have been reading the new edition of Wordsworth's poetry, in which there are several new things.'Sarah Wedgwood and the Miss AllensWilliam WordsworthUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [extensive criticism of the MS follows]... You are now...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read, and I can yet form no judgement, only I am indignan...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Price [the heroine of JA's novel, "Mansfield Park"], sh...[Miss] Dusautoy Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. The...Jane Austen Laetitia Matilda HawkinsRosanne; or, a Father's Labour LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Hawkins' great excellence is on serious subjects. The...Anna Lefroy Laetitia Matilda HawkinsRosanne; or, a Father's Labour LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses, Sketches, emendations &c. strange that a Man shd ke...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander Pope[MS of his translations of Homer]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.'Jane Austen James BoswellTour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w...Jane Austen Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-Albini: a NovelPrint: Book


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