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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'... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.'Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Doddridge BlackmoreCristowellPrint: Book
1850-1899'... I ask you particularly to thank Mr Bunner ... for his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really pleases an author like what the French call a "sh...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I saw my book advertised in a number of the Critic as the work of one R. L. Stephenson ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Holt[Review of New Arabian Nights in Critic]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You are right about Two Years Ago.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles KingsleyTwo Years AgoPrint: Book
1850-1899'You will find Lucy and Richard in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith ... I have read Richard thrice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1850-1899'... after that you will read the Egoist by the same ... I have read... The Egoist six times ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899'... your remarks on Great Expectations are very good. We have both re-read it this winter .. The object being a play ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I like the "Rover", better than any of your other verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Rover'
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Emma Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book
1850-1899'... my mother would read aloud to me. I particularly associate Cowper's ''Winter Walk at Noon'' with these readings. Cowper was a great favourite with her — both h...Henrietta Darwin William CowperThe Task, Book VI, Winter Walk at NoonPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are very much charmed with Lord G. Paget's account of the Crimean War, a subject I dislike so much that I am surprised to like it so much...'Emma Darwin George Augustus Frederick, Lord PagetThe Light Cavalry Brigade in the CrimeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have also begun Lyell['s ''Life'']. The scrap of autobiography is pleasant.'Emma Darwin Charles, Sir LyellLife, Letters and JournalsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading over his old letters. I have not many , we were so seldom apart...'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'We are ... to meet Moncure Conway.We have just been reading a very grand sermon of his on Darwinism.'Emma Darwin Moncure Daniel ConwayunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been looking over some very old letters of hers [sister Elizabeth], and it is not a very cheeerful occupation...'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'You bet I saw the Courant notice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Review in 'Edinburgh Courant'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I suppose you read long ago the Hare ''Memorials of a Quiet Life''. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness...'Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. HareMemorials of a Quiet LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'I do so want to talk over Mrs Carlyle with you, and I hope you will get it soon. It is most interesting and entertaining, but what a coarse woman, though only to a husba...Emma Darwin Jane Welsh CarlyleLetters and Memorials of Jane Welsh CarlylePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading such old letters of my mother's, about going to school; it is like looking into a forgotten picture of myself.'Emma Darwin Elizabeth Wedgwood[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been reading Frank's notes on F., and I am quite delighted with them. The picture is so minute and exact that it is like a written photograph, and so full of tend...Emma Darwin Francis DarwinPreparatory notes to 'The Life and Letters of Char...Manuscript: Preparatory notes for 'The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin', edited by Francis Darwin.


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