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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
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars, my dear goddess decree/ That Old Maid as I am, an ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Mary] [Tighe]The old Maid's prayer to DianaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Ludwig TieckThe Old Man of the Mountain, The LovecharmPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a co...Charles Maturin Charlotte SmithThe Old Manor HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.
1. Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved.

[...] ...		Alice Joselin E. S. Grant-WatsonThe Old SchoolPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Old Wives TalePrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constance born 1846, 16 in 1862/ Sophia born 1847, 15 in 18...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThe old wives' talePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Whinfell 24/1/30
A Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
[...]
The subject of Arnold Bennett was then taken ...		Francis Pollard Arnold BennettThe Old Wives' TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Parcel from Pemb. [Pembrokeshire] War Fund. Worked on tennis court ... Read Old Wives Tale and Anna of Five Towns (Arnold Bennett).' William Thomas Arnold BennettThe Old Wives' TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 23 February 1826: 'Read a little volume called the OMEN very well written, deep and powerfull language [...] it is [John Gibson] Lockhart or I am strangely...Walter Scott John GaltThe OmenPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved

[...]

6. C....

Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.]The one dimensional mindPrint: Book
1850-1899'May - Autobiography'Sarah Good Frances Hodgson-BurnettThe One I Knew the Best of AllPrint: Book
1850-1899'But my great excitement was reading your stories.Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve. ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Open BoatPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I remember reading in a book called "The open Road" an extract from Hewlett's "Pan and the Young Shepherd" which I thought splendid. Thanks to our Galahad's detestable...Clive Staples Lewis Edward Verrall LucasThe Open Road, a Book for WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was a great favourite of mine once. He was a past mas...Winifred Agnes Moore Oliver OnionsThe Open SecretPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Basil Montagu (ed.)The Opinions of different authors upon the punishm...Print: Book
1900-1945'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Walter BesantThe Orange GirlPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons...Edward Morgan Forster Van Wyck BrooksThe Ordeal of Mark TwainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have you read it? & the extraordinary speech of Ivan abou...Edgar Woolf George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1850-1899'You will find Lucy and Richard in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith ... I have read Richard thrice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book


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