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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'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut...Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had made lash to for me close by the Cabin Stove, with m...Janet Schaw unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have had no cold weather yet for me to take care in. I am well; I am a kind of tea-totaler[sic] and often take nothing but chocolate at night. [...]I have written to ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathetic passages, and natural dialogues in "Evenings at H...[ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday'Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or MargaretOliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesHonore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesThomas HughesTom Brown's School DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) Auguste ComteCatechism Of Positive Religion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed edition, but it exists, and I am reading him all over aga...Arnold Bennett Mark RutherfordThe Novels of Mark RutherfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter ... I read his poems and found, with disappointment, they were not even improper.'Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar WildePoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just had Oscar Wilde's incredible letter to Colvin and have roared over it ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Oscar Wildeletter to Sidney ColvinManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books. I ha...Mary Russell MitfordFanny's FairingsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congra...Sydney Smith James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of ...Richard Lovell Edgeworth Samuel Romilly[speech on the Slave Trade]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of ...Maria Edgeworth Samuel Romilly[speech on the Slave Trade]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and father likes the 'Plan with the Planets' astrological fo... Sunday ExpressPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We have the Sunday Express because it is more newsy, and the People because my mother likes the women's page and father likes the 'Plan with the Planets' astrological fo... PeoplePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
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1800-1849		'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness for the gentle, close truth and quiet power of Cowper is consistent; b...Jane Austen Cowper Print: Book


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