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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
 
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettThe Sailor's ReturnUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 6 August 1851:

'I have read "The Saint's Tragedy". As a "work of art" it seems to me far superior to either "Alton L...		Charlotte Brontë Charles KingsleyThe Saint's Tragedy; or, the True Story of Elizabe...Print: Book
1600-1699... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s...Elizabeth Baker Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this wor...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditati...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1700-1799At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] conclu...James Clegg Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting Rest.Print: Book
1850-1899'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literatur...William Henry Hudson Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should like to have three more copies of the poem, if you will kindly send them. I give sparingly—to those only who are able to appreciate good poetry, and you ...William Henry Hudson Lascelles AbercrombieThe Sale of Saint Thomas [The First Act of a Play ...Print: Book
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [unknown]The Sale RoomPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.'George Bernard Shaw Henry JamesThe SaloonUnknown
1900-1945The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irritates the reader & enfeebles the sturff. Also the co...Arnold Bennett Katherine MansfieldThe Samuel JosephsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. 'Sept. 11th. He read me more of the "San Graal": very...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 9th. [1868] A. read me a bit of his "San Graal," which he has now begun. 'Sept. 11th. He read me more of the "San Graal": very...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal: 'Sept. 23rd. [1868] We took Lionel [son] to Eton, and left him in Mr Stone's house. At Mr Warre's request A. read the "San Graal" MS com...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe San GraalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read The Sands of Pleasure by Montmartre.'William Thomas Filson YoungThe Sands of PleasurePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I find it so well writ, as I think it too good for him ...Elizabeth Pepys William PennThe sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generall...Print: Book
1900-1945'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the play. [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'Arnold Bennett E.V. LucasThe Sane StarManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'Thomas Green John DrydenThe satires of Juvenalis, translated into EnglishPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [apparently concerning James and Howells's controversia...Henry James The Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Monday, 4 April 1831: 'Mr. Liddell and Hay Mackenzie left us this morning. Liddell shewd me yesterday a very good old fashioned poem worthy of Pope or Churchill in old...Walter Scott LiddellThe SavoyardUnknown


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