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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"Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me."Leslie Stephen E. E. HaleJames Russell Lowell and his friendsPrint: Book
1800-1849"Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly...John Cole [books of topography and travel]Print: Book
1800-1849"Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, comparing it with the 1st edition and with the Greek as...William Blake HomerIliadPrint: Book
1800-1849"Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one comfort to those that it nicknames 'Humbugs' [.]"John Clare John Bull MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible ...Edmund Gosse F.T PalgraveThe Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h...Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to...Edmund Gosse Robert SoutheyWorks (poetical?)Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1800-1849"By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in copies of the works of Sir Thomas Browne destined for S...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Browne Print: Book
1850-1899"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the con...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Miss Broughton [had] read the lives of great women reformers like Florence Nightingale and Miss Weston ..." Lives of women reformersPrint: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life of Joan of Arc."Mrs Reonold Life of Joan of ArcPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley The ClarionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley Merrry EnglandPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley God and My NeighbourPrint: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...Charles Robert Maturin Samuel RichardsonPamelaPrint: Book
1850-1899"Can you find and send to me the last lines of Longfellow's Golden legend, beginning 'It is Lucifer, son of the air,' and so on. 'Since God put him there, he is God's min...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Charlotte M. Yonge, apprehensive that mothers in the 1890s were paying insufficient attention to what their daughters got up to on Sundays, regretted that children were ...Young Lady Augustus Stanley and sister The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945"Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic...Christine Longford Susan WarnerThe Wide, Wide WorldPrint: Book


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