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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'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'Emma Darwin Francois de JulliotLa Folle du LogisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'Emma Darwin Frances or Sarah BurneyUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'Emma Darwin unknown unknown[Biography of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the Psalms and I cannot conceive how they have satisfied the devotional feelings of the world for such centuries.'Emma Darwin The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.'Emma Darwin George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacauleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'My reader is a great success. It is ''Cranford'', and ''D-n Dr Johnson'' comes in. She stopped dead and said ''a slang expression''. I can't perceive she is ever amused....Emma Darwin Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.' Emma Darwin A. J. BalfourThe Foundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems r...Emma Darwin VoltaireThe Age of Lewis XIVPrint: Book
1850-1899'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant, and found them competently done.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson[See below, Additional Comments.]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899My dear Mrs Oliphant, I address you freely, because I have a full heart just now; and I had rather speak foolishly out of my enthusiasm than hold my tongue afterwards in ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantA Beleaguered City.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your "Dumas" I think exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'Dumas'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have you read Meredith's "Love in the Valley"? It got me, I wept; I remembered that poetry existed.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithLove in the ValleyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Friedrich SchillerOn the Aesthetic Education of Man in a Series of L...Print: Unknown
1850-1899'He had a pretty full translation of Schiller's Aesthetic Letters. which we read together, as well as the second part of Faust.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Mary GilliesThe Voyage of the "Constance": A Tale of the Polar...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Charlotte Mary Yonge The Prince and the Page: A story of the last Crusa...Print: Book
1850-1899'Evening wrote to Billy[.] Mammy read to us a very amusing book called "The little savage".'Florence Bell Frederick Marryat The Little SavagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Afternoon stopped at home and finished "Cuckoo Clock"[...].' Gertrude Bell Mary Louise MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'Morning it was so hot went into the garden and read. Afternoon Miss Klug began the most beautiful book called "Helen's babies" after lessons she read again tea in the ga...Gertrude Bell John HabbertonHelen's BabiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Will you send me the second volume of Pattison's essays, if you are not reading it. I have nearly finished the first and will post it to you. I think some of them most i...Gertrude Bell Mark PattisonEssaysPrint: Book


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