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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
 
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneSentimental Journey, APrint: Book
1700-1799'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing od...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneLife and Opinions of Tristam ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolled by mere chance into a Bookseller's Shop, where how...Hester Lynch Thrale Laurence Sterneife and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Laurence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 10 October and 19 November 1880] 'The evening readings of Tristram Shandy created in Lady Charlotte a feeling of disgust, and she thought ...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberLaurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Shandy [end italics] said "our armies swore terribly in...Albert John Martin Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp...Clive Staples Lewis Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema...Print: Book
1900-1945I have been for two motor drives, so you see I am getting on: and I am reading a book called 'Tadpoles and God' which pleases me by talking of Mr Wells who 'in his ...Freya Stark Laurence Oliver BrownTadpoles and GodPrint: Book
1900-1945'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have written originally in English.)' Arnold Bennett Laurent TailhadePoemes aristophanesquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Laurent Tailhade] must have lent him one of his two volumes of collected poems because Owen soon started a translation of a [italics] ballade elegiaque [end italics] fr...Wilfred Owen Laurent TailhadePoemes elegiaquesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly entertaining'.Sarah Harriet Burney Laurent Angliviel de la BeaumelleMemoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Mai...Print: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Lawrence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Lawrence SterneA Sentimental JourneyPrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington Lawrence SterneunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"; [borrowed from Mr Manley on visit to Stammington, July 7 1798] It has of late become the fashion to cry down Sterne as the greatest ...Joseph Hunter Lawrence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy [in 2 vol...Print: Book
1900-1945'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'John Buchan Lawrence Sterne Print: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Lawrence L. LynchShadowed by Three: A Detective StoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Carnot's memorial - he is a common place man'Mary Godwin Lazare N.M. CarnotMemoir adresse au Roi en juillet 1814Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Legh RichmondDomestic PortraiturePrint: Book


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