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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
 
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who a...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Seams will slit and elbows will out quoth the tailor - and as I was fifty four on 15 August last my mortal vestments are none of the newest.'Walter Scott Samuel FooteThe Maid of BathUnknown
1900-1945Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F...Henry James Andrew LangThe Maid of France, being the Story of the Life an...Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Another little poem [collected in Palgrave's "Golden Treasury"] greatly moved him: perhaps he was not very...Alfred Tennyson ScottThe Maid of NeidpathUnknown
1800-1849'I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure — Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher — there are on the t...John Keats Beaumont & Fletcher The Maid's TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont'Percy Bysshe Shelley Francis BeaumontThe Maides TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with your novel.[...] The book is captivatng enough in all ...Joseph Conrad E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant WilsonThe MainlandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Making of a MarchionessPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your paper in the "Academy" mutilated as it is by the mystic mind illustrates my meaning.'Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)The Making of Modern VersePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world. [...] He would rea...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan a...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan,...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago: The land of the orang-utan,...Print: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Rudyard KiplingThe Maltese Cat Print: Book
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The...Margaret Ellen Cook unknown unknownThe Man at the GatePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
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 Dorothy L SayersThe Man Born to be KingPrint: Book
1850-1899Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular.John Buchan Arnold BennettThe Man from the NorthManuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945' . . . as sentence follows sentence I marvel, and wonder, indeed, if the writer [Bruce Barton] is not himself an inspired seer and whether the spirit of the man he wri...Dora Seimons Bruce BartonThe Man Nobody KnowsPrint: Book
1800-1849I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and th...Lady Louisa Stuart Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet ver...Lady Louisa Stuart Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book


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