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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'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George Saintsbury[review in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of 'An Inland Voyage'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...'Robert Louis Stevenson anon [Review of 'An Inland Voyage']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Books on Camisards]Unknown
1850-1899'Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Manières; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Streetname plaques
1850-1899'I liked "Veuillot" horrid; it was jolly and sympathetic and I think true.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A French Journalist'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Received Scots Worthies, without notes. However, ‘tis a rotten book, and not worth a rush at best.'Robert Louis Stevenson John HowieThe Scots WorthiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on he talked laughingly of the cheap editions he had been wont to buy of Mark Twain's masterpieces, and spoke reminiscently of reading these books when he was on t...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first words of Conrad's first book ["Almayer's Folly"] were pencilled on the fly-leaves and margins of "Madame Bovary".'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] sat in the grandfather's chair,his back to the window, beside the fireplace, reading, his manuscript held up to the light: Conrad sat forwar...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) and Joseph ConradRomanceManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité , "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pas...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertTrois ContesPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantCe Cochon de MorinPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantLa Nuit Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Ellen WoodunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad The Family Herald: A Domestic Magazine of Useful I...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'He [Conrad] one or twice said that when he was going down Ratcliffe Highway [from the City to Limehouse, East End of London] he was jumped out at from a doorway by a gen...Joseph Conrad The BiblePrint: Book


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