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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"'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independe...Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Walter BesantChildren of GibeonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"'At seven I had so far profited by her teaching,' wrote the Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge of his dame school teacher, 'as to be able to make out the contents ...Joseph Gutteridge public house and shop signsManuscript: Signboard
1850-1899"'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the author of this book evidently knows his character in...Arnold Bennett C.E. FrancisEvery Day's NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, ...A. C. Tait Benjamin DisraeliEndymionPrint: Book
1700-1799"'I have received from [Basil] Montagu, Godwyn's second edition,' reports W[ordsworth] on 21 March 1796: 'I expect to find the work much improved. I cannot say that I hav...William Wordsworth William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1850-1899"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'"Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1800-1849"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Pat...Charles Manby Smith Dr D of Prospect Villa [letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899"'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed." Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which ...John Masefield Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Revolt of IslamPrint: Book
1850-1899"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set it down as the greatest within my knowledge." ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr...Charles Maturin Thomas SouthernComplete PlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'"Charles Robert Maturin Thomas OtwayComplete PlaysPrint: Book
1700-1799"'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth John MooreTravels in FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism'". Arnold Bennett G. B. ShawThe Quintessence of IbsenismPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ...Maria Edgeworth Vittorio AlfieriMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849"... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading Byron's 'The Corsair') ..."Anne Jemima Clough George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1900-1945"... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h...Lady Desborough George Meredithpoem
1600-1699"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure ...Benjamin Tooke seditious bookPrint: unbound printed sheets
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book


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