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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'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo...Clare Cameron Karl Marx[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.'William Soutar Karl MarxCapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Ritter.'Gertrude Bell Karl RitterDie Erdkunde im Verhältniss zur Natur und zu...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Christian WolfartJahrbucher Fur den Lebens-Magnetismus oder NeuesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehseprobably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Re...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Friedrich BahrdtGlaubens-BekanntnissPrint: Book
1850-1899'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis[history of German Protestantism - title unclear]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Leonhard ReinholdVersuch einer neueren Theorie des menschlichen Vor...Print: Book
1800-1849From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'Felicia Hemans Karl Theodor KornerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand SolgerPhilosophische GesprachePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] .....George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foundation; and though I do not always agree with his ta...Charlotte Bury Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel[probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatu...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Karoline BauerPosthumous Memoirs: From the GermanPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kasper Lodewijk ValckenaerDiatribe de Aristobulo JudaeoPrint: Book
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Kate SimmondsThe Best PolicyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...
Harriet Bickersteth Cook Kate Douglas WigginRose o' the RiverPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...
Harriet Bickersteth Cook Kate Douglas WigginTimothy's QuestPrint: Book
1850-1899'?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more types in the same style; and when I have the lot , I?...Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].'Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosIncluded "Miss Griffin"?Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper".



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