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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'What a pathetic Essay the last volume of Leslie Stephen's. It is evidently a pouring out of his soul on his wife.'Emma Darwin Leslie Stephen Print: Book
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace Thackeray[general reference to Thackeray's novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.'Emma Darwin Frances Edward YounghusbandThe Heart of a Continent:a Narrative of Travels in...Print: Book
1850-1899I had a snug evening with Mildred reading part of the broken last novel of L. Stevenson, in which he gives most elaborate descriptions of characters you don't care for. H...Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonThe Weir of Hermiston Print: Book
1850-1899'I am very much interested in Morley's ''Life of Rousseau'' ... Morley does not gloss over any of his crimes or odiousness.'Emma Darwin John MorleyRousseauPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte- BeuveReview of Mme Epinay's MemoirsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a wido...Emma Darwin Margaret OliphantSquire Arden?Print: Book
1850-1899'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly doe...Emma Darwin Ralph Waldo EmersonUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My mother had a school-board pupil-teacher to read aloud to her during part of the winter; she wrote: ''I embarked with her in such a frivolous novel all about flirtatio...Emma Darwin Charlotte Mary Yonge Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin, ed. Francis DarwinThe Life and Letters of Charles DarwinPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am driven by stress of bad novels to Carlyle again.'Emma Darwin Thomas CarlyleUnknown, possibly Letters and Memorials of Jane We...Print: Book
1850-1899'We read aloud one of the ''New Arabian Nights'' you mention, which is very amusing ... I particularly admire the ending of the bandbox story...'Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonNew Arabian NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading and makes one think worse than ever of Parnell.'Emma Darwin unknown unknownForster's LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.'Emma Darwin Frances Julia WedgwoodThe Moral Ideal, a Historic StudyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Tom Poole book is pleasant except that every word of Coleridge's letters revolts me, they are a mixture of gush and mawkish egotism, and what seems like humbug.'Emma Darwin Margaret E. SandfordThomas Poole and his FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'.Emma Darwin unknown unknownSir H. Taylor's LettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excel...Emma Darwin John Richard JefferiesLife in a Southern CountyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading ''Paradise Regained'' (sandwiched with Rousseau's ''Confessions'') out of compliment to Mr Bright, who used to read it through every Sunday.'Emma Darwin Jean-Jaques RousseauThe Confessions of Jean-Jaques RousseauPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am also reading Clough's ''Life''. He was as religious as Lamb at the same age.'Emma Darwin Blanche Clough?Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selec...Print: Book


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