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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'Did you ever at Lurgan read the 4th Georgic? It is the funniest example of the colossal ignorance of a great poet that I know. It's about bees, and Virgil's natural hi...Clive Staples Lewis VirgilThe GeorgicsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your father's book is wonderful. I read the articles of course at the time; but now collected, in the mass, they astonish one by their marvellous insight into the future...Joseph Conrad Frederic HarrisonThe German Peril: Forecasts 1864-1914, Realities 1...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in Sophia and Harriet Lee's Canterbury Tales] from which...George Gordon Lord Byron Harriet LeeThe German's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, a...Henry James Mrs W. K. CliffordThe Getting Well of DorothyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the...		E. Dorothy Brain unknown unknownThe Ghost of Southcote ManorUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe Ghost SeerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.' [also records reading this text on 28 October 1825]Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerThe Ghost-SeerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pi...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourUnknown
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition of the Giaour. "The description of Love almost make...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of Abydos]," that I ventured last night to introduce he...George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Gift of Paul ClermontPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.'John Buckley Castieau Mayne ReidThe Giraffe HuntersPrint: Book
1850-1899'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'John Buckley Castieau Mayne ReidThe Giraffe HuntersPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).'Margaret Cole The Girl's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she would never, from the first, read anything that she...Rosemary Sutcliff George John Whyte-MelvilleThe GladiatorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her...Chaim Bermant n/aThe Glasgow HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Harriet Beer D.K. BrosterThe Gleam in the NorthPrint: Book
1900-1945My mother read it [The Flight of the Heron] with pleasure, but not with the passion I felt but which it seems I successfully hid from her. She soon got on to the sequels,...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Gleam in the NorthPrint: Book


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