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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
 
1900-1945'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book, Newspaper
1700-1799'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that I long for the second part, and want to see the char...Louisa, Lady Stuart Caroline Dawson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'You need not send mee Lady Newcastles book at all for I have seen it, and am sattisfyed that there are many soberer People in Bedlam, i'le swear her friends are much to ...Dorothy Osborne Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle(?) Poems and FanciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, never - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are book...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry BrookeFool of Quality, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Margaret Emily Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' Arnold Bennett Robert HalifaxHe Looked in my WindowPrint: Book
1850-1899'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'You say [in Walpole's critical study "Joseph Conrad"(1916)] that I have been under the formative influence of "Madame Bovary". In fact I have read it only after finishin...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'You say, "I wonder what you think of Trotter's Life of Fox"? Now I wonder that, supposing I had only read two paragraphs, you could have any doubt of what I must think; ...Matthew Lewis J.B. TrotterMemoirs of the latter years of the Right Honourabl...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'You see I quote Sir W. Scott. I am reading in the evenings at the Athenaeum his life, and am in the sixth volume.' Charles Darwin J. G. LockhartThe Life of Sir Walter Scott bart.
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] Giovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] HomerOdyssey and IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you, that you may judge of its merits: not being skilled...Miss V[-] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Samuel ButlerThe Way of all FleshPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett W.B. MaxwellThe Devil's GardenPrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleFortitudePrint: Book
1900-1945'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it is not excusable to lose your head about badness or ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleMr Perrin and Mr TraillPrint: Book
1850-1899'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans that I have found very inspiring indeed.' Arnold Bennett Henry Havelock EllisAffirmationsPrint: Book


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