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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[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought ...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberLaurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberHorace WalpoleWalpolianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Christen AsbjorsenRound the Yule LogPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whilst I was abroad the proof-sheets of "the Descent of Man" were sent out to me to read.'Henrietta Litchfield Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Page proofs
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The eve...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Alain-Réné Lesage (Le Sage) The Adventures of Gil Blas of SantilanePrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de PorajPan TadeuzPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLandorPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1850-1899'I knew I had forgot something: Furnivall is too free; it is permitted to be insolent, but not to be so strangely dull.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederick James FurnivallReview in The AcademyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one likes the moon, I fancy'.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'O boy, I'm deep in Lanfry.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean-Pierre LanfryHistoire de Napoleon 1erPrint: Book
1850-1899'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has...Robert Louis Stevenson Percy Hetherington FitzgeraldLife of George IVPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandList of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh ...Print: Book


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