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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCharles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to us on Sunday afternoons. We ploughed through "Davi...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid Copperfield Print: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a bookish child - I came upon Stevenson's "Treasure Isl...Charles Causley Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Charles DickensDavid Copperfield (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 11 March 1851:

'How we work! and lift, and carry, and knock boxes open as if we were carpenters by trade; and...		Mary Taylor Charles DickensDavid Copperfield (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

George Burrow Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Muriel Stevens Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'A more poignant Newcastle memory came later. Settled in the town in a house of our own, we had been reading David Copperfield aloud of an evening to manma, when she ...Ernest Rhys Charles DickensDavid Copperfield


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