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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
1900-1945		'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] T...William Wordsworth Francis Jeffreyreview of ThalabaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'.Lady Caroline Lamb J.G. LockhartSome Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam BlairPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeVillage, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbeLibrary, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott Dodsley[Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Librar...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott Dodsley[Annual Register - extract of Crabbe's 'The Villag...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[your letter] has gratified a wish of more than twenty years standing. It is I think fully that time since I was for a great part of a very snowy winter the inhabitant o...Walter Scott George CrabbePatron, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1850-1899'[…] I keep reading XVth Century […]'Robert Louis Stevenson various[works on the fifteenth century]Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform pla...Robert Louis Stevenson Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] [memorial on grave]Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
1900-1945'… folk talk about men not wanting religion—the men who really know what the War is have a different tale to tell—have you read Neville’s book, just out? I’ll send ...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Neville TalbotThoughts on Religion at the FrontPrint: Book
1850-1899'…I got it the same year as I got “The Cities of the World” the most remarkable point about which, I have always thought, is the fact that it omits to mention London, tho...Richard [Dick] Kharsedji Sorabji Edwin HodderCities of the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'‘We were going to congratulate you on Tuesday after the play ["The Silver Box" 25 Sept 1906] but we saw you shut in by such a vast throng of eager friends tha...William Henry Hudson William Archer[review]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945(1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which...Clive Staples Lewis Lucius ApuleiusThe Story of Cupid and PsychePrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '... through reading Maeterlinck, to improve my French, too late at night, I have developed a penchant for mystical philosophy' (2) 'My other reading — in French — ...Clive Staples Lewis Maurice MaeterlinckL'oiseau bleu Feerie en cinq actes et dix tableauxPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '... you simply must read this book of Maeterlinck's on death. It is full of the most interesting stuff, and even when you don't believe his theories they always ha...Clive Staples Lewis Maurice MaeterlinckLa MortPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '...also dipped often into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Being entirely made up of conversation I don't think it is a book to be read continuously, tho' it is very g...Clive Staples Lewis James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Can you guess what I have been reading this week? Of all things in the world "Pendennis"! Isn't this the one you find too much for you? I am nearly through the fir...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfort...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I also bought a French Book on the Poetry of the middle ages — so you see dear Oxford is a dangerous place for a book lover.' (2) 'I am now reading in French this ...Clive Staples Lewis Gaston ParisLa Litterature francaise au moyen age (XI-XIV siec...Print: Book


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