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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'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who did not know it; - & we did so grieve!'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Oliver Wendell Holmes[poem]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Sy...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Addington SymondsThoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Russell LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "Fireside Travels".'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles LeverTony ButlerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol - author of "Jem" (something) - the Dale Boy, in the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Elliott[story with title like 'Jem']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...John Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but when I am ailing or ill, I take "Cranford" and - I was...Margaret Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this ...Florence Elizabeth Crompton [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see in reviews.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. Lowell[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellBiglow Papers, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'... some verses which I wrote turn out, on inspection, to be not quite equal to "Kubla Khan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeKubla KhanPrint: Book
1850-1899'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him quite tolerably.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanOut of the Cradle Endlessly RockingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am to act Orsino (the Duke) in "Twelfth Night" at the Jenkins’. I could not resist that; it is such a delightful part; and I got them to put off my rehearsals to the l...Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareTwelfth Night, Or What You Will.Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] brea...Mary Augusta Ward Civilta CattolicaPrint: Serial / periodical


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