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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
 
1800-1849'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all save two or three trivial misnomers regarding the chara...James Hogg John WilsonTrials of Margaret Lyndsay, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength of colouring. In nature and interest it is defectiv...James Hogg John Wilson'Wrestliana', in Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have only read the first article of Maga which is a glorious confusion a miscellany of itself the other long articles I dont like'.James Hogg John Wilson 'Hints for the Holidays. No. III' [in Blackwood's...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is inimitable so is "The Currency"and indeed the whole is ...James Hogg John Wilson'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's E...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The twin Magas are excellent with the exception of "La petite Madelaine" which to me is quite despicable! To slight your old friend for such feminine frible-frable! Wils...James Hogg John Wilson'Unimore. A Dream of the Highlands'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- [italics]I[end italics] call him a "brute- angel" [...Elizabeth Barrett John Wilson (as Christopher North)The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3)Print: Book
1800-1849Pencil drawing of Sir John Moore by 'J.G.' followed by 'On the death of Sir John Moore' [transcribes text] 'Wolfe'.Mary Dugdale John WolfeThe Burial of Sir John MooreUnknown
1900-1945'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Ca...Antonia White John WoolmanJournal of John Woolman Print: Book
1700-1799'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return o...James Boswell John YoungCriticism on Gray's Elegy in a Country ChurchyardPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1800-1849'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Ok...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleLetter dated 6th Feb, MunichManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleReview of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonolog...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar...Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Animal Magnetism'Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over th...William Graham John A. CarlyleOn Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841: 'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine things in it -- very -- but it wants continuity, in...Elizabeth Barrett John A. HeraudThe Roman Brother: A TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard John A. SpenderThe Comments of BagshotPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”


Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...

Francis E. Pollard John A. SpenderThe Comments of BagshotPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cramb, and some Bernhardi, and I am sure we could not ...Edward Morgan Forster John Adam CrambGermany and England
1850-1899'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic ...Margaret Oliphant John Addington SymondsLife of SymondsPrint: Book


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