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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'Home - by J Conder' 'That is not home, where day by day, /...'Bowly groupJosiah ConderHomeUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of ...Henry James Josiah RoycePhi Beta address on the work and influence of Will...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sismondi, Depping, Llorente etc'.George Eliot [pseud.] Juan Antonio Llorente[Spanish history]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyjoo, a very clever work in 14 volumes; and I am now r...Elizabeth Smith Juan de MarianaHistory of SpainPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ...Gabriel Harvey Juan Luis VivesCommentary to St Augustine, De Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it to...Arnold Bennett Jules ClaretieL'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout.Vernon Lee Jules CombarieuLes rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid...Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is very very well done. Your author's text is odd [curi...Joseph Conrad Jules Laforgue Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history.' Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations against Nessa [for issuing invitation to Igor and Helen A...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards George Trevelyan; who has just been made Master of Trinit...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de France vol.15Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jules MicheletFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson Jules MicheletFrench Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution franca...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsom...George Otto Trevelyan Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Jules SandeauLa Chasse au RomanPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has high...Henry James Jules VallesJacques VingtrasPrint: Book
1850-1899'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the EarthPrint: Book
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve...Chester Armstrong Jules Verne Print: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a...Harry Burton Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the EarthPrint: Book


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