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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
 
1600-1699'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'Samuel Pepys Katherine PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Katherine PhillipsA VirginPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:] 'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather stiff, but seem to have an air of genuineness -- and...Catherine Talbot Katherine PhillipsLetters (as 'Orinda')Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhillipsLetters to Sir Charles CotterelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:] 'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel were genuine; it is so long since...Elizabeth Carter Katherine PhillipspoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Katherine Prescott WormeleyMS notes to Balzac's LettersManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Katherine Prescott WormeleyPreface [on Balzac]Print: proof
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'There’s a bit in my diary about Forever Amber which was notorious. My mother surprisingly read it first and let me read it. But my great friend ...Hilary Spalding Kathleen WindsorForever AmberPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Kay AmbroseBallet Lover's NotebookPrint: Book
1900-1945'A thousand thanks for the article you devote to me in the "Revue". I read it with lively interest, profound attention and much gratitude.' Thence follow six more lines...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiUn cas de naturalisation littéraire: Joseph ConradPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It only remains for me to add that I am on page 24 of "Ivan the Terrible"; that is to say that I have been comforted 24 times by complete forgetfulness of my difficultie...Joseph Conrad Kazimierz WaliszewskiIvan le Terrible Print: Book
1900-1945'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in m...Dorothy Burnham Keats 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'Print: Unknown
1850-1899In a notebook entry for 12 July 1896, Mattison expresses regret over the death of oscialist activist Caroline Martyn, mentioning that he has read of her illness in the La...Alf Mattison Keir HardieLabour LeaderPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1800-1849'Notebooks i 1002, 1004 and 1005 reveal that, 1-9 Nov. 1801, C[oleridge] was reading a copy of Digby's Two Treatises (1645) borrowed from Carlisle Cathedral Library.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kenelm DigbyTwo Treatises, in the one of which, the nature of ...Print: Book
1900-1945[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a District Officer". Matron says that I must not read m...Hilary Spalding Kenneth BradleyDiary of a District OfficerPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I have drawn the sting of it by deciding to print it am...Virginia Woolf Kenneth Burke'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virgini...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came back and read about Leonardo - Kenneth Clark - good I ...Virginia Woolf Kenneth ClarkunknownUnknown
1900-1945For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" nor "Winne-the-Pooh", nor any Beatrix Potter -and wh...Patricia Beer Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the WillowsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Kenneth Grahame[probably The Wind in the Willows etc]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Kenneth GrahameDream DaysPrint: Book


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