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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Reading a book by Oliver Baldwin. A lot of it is the sentimentalism of a few years back, which fell to pieces when the Hun was at our Back and Front Door. He seems at...Vere Hodgson Oliver BaldwinThe Questing Beast: An AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'The Quintessence of Ibsenism'". Arnold Bennett G. B. ShawThe Quintessence of IbsenismPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, George Smith, 18 September 1850:

'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to the read...		Charlotte Brontë Robert KnoxThe Races of MenPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to their readers" ... Dr Knox alone, wi...Charlotte Bronte Robert KnoxThe Races of Men: A FragmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'iron moulders [n/a]The Racing SpecialistPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr Belfrage's Essay on "The Rainbow" [underlined].' [f...John Cole BelfrageThe RainbowPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow I picked up in a book shop during the brief period ...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe RainbowPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe RainbowPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Samuel JohnsonThe RamblerPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book
1700-1799" I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison."Lady Eleanor Butler Samuel RichardsonThe RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter [n/a]The RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Depart...Mary Birch [n/a]The RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the [italics]Spectator[end italics] and [italics]The Ram...Elizabeth Sewell Samuel JohnsonThe RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599
1600-1699		" ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, decided to compose his own 'Supplement.'"Sir John Suckling William ShakespeareThe Rape of LucreceUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is very extravagant and foolish. It is the blemish of a p...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seems to me to have the kind of vitality in him that S...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary: 'Oct. 17th. [1858] He [Alfred Tennyson] read aloud "The Rape of the Lock," and noted the marvellous skill of many of the couplets.'Alfred Tennyson Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1850-1899Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart': 'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Real ThingPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 February, 1802: 'William read parts of his Recluse aloud to me.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe RecluseManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson William WordsworthThe ReclusePrint: Book


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