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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
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Edward WhymperTravels Amongst the Great Andes of the EquatorPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan,...Print: Book
1850-1899'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double magnifying microscopes' (or whatever it was that dear...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensPickwick Papers Chapter 34Print: Book
1850-1899'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded works, but from casual glances into one or two of the...Arnold Bennett Mrs. Humphry WardThe Story of Bessie CottrellPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in Yesterdays?(Monday?s) Paper??it seems as if meant f...Frances Burney Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'You may remember that I used to desire to outlive you: I have changed my cue: I should be left to speak in the words of surely the most affecting historical document in ...Robert Louis Stevenson Emery Tylney(in) Foxe's Book of MartyrsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You mean the Monitor? I read it because I think it's better than any English papers. It doesn't mix its news and views up together, like Beaverbrook's dirty rags do.' MonitorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.'Robert Southey Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little actual criticism, I imagine it to give a sort of impr...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntImagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Dante AlighieriParadisoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale'Print: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith George VancouverA Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean A...Print: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Richard Lovell AND Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la PerouseVoyage de la Perouse autour du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must...Sydney Smith [unknown]The BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must cure them, or show them incurable. But you ought to k...Harriet Martineau James EsdaileMesmerism in India and its Practical Application i...Print: Book
1900-1945'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] Yes. you can do things; you present them with a skil...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book


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