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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'I bought for 3s. a novel by Mrs Oliphant, ''An English Squire'', with the same irritable young man one knows so well. A very clever description of the feelings of a wido...Emma Darwin Margaret OliphantSquire Arden?Print: Book
1850-1899My dear Mrs Oliphant, I address you freely, because I have a full heart just now; and I had rather speak foolishly out of my enthusiasm than hold my tongue afterwards in ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantA Beleaguered City.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu...Margaret PhillipsWithin the City WallUnknown
1900-1945'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is quite a document on Spain to day and apparently wri...Winifred Agnes Moore Margaret SteenMatadorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revel...Virginia Woolf Margaret SymondsDays Spent on a Doge's FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899 "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. She had a pleasant little talk with us & was pleased, ...Leslie Stephen Margaret VeleyMarriage of Shadows and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The Tom Poole book is pleasant except that every word of Coleridge's letters revolts me, they are a mixture of gush and mawkish egotism, and what seems like humbug.'Emma Darwin Margaret E. SandfordThomas Poole and his FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yes, I think David Douglas would be all right; so Massons, Frasers, Skeltons and Coggie Ferrier. I’ll see if I can think of any others;[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I think Georgie’s idea about the impropriety of Marjory sending for Will on her deathbed so lunatic, so furious, so truly wicked and silly that I don’t know what to say ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'We have had no cold weather yet for me to take care in. I am well; I am a kind of tea-totaler[sic] and often take nothing but chocolate at night. [...]I have written to ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My dear Mother, Many thanks for your last kind letter. I am very much better […]. My book is almost through the press.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Your last letter was very nice.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My dear people, I shall tell you as soon as I am able to come over: and I can say no more. How can I? I hope it will be very soon, but it cannot be immediately. I did no...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella and Thomas Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My dear Father and Mother, Your letters received with thanks. My book is being printed by Thorne, Stiff, and Payne, among other people. Is that not appropriate for a neu...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella; Thomas Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
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1500-1599		'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is considered to be an early copy [of The Book of Margery ...Carthusian monks of Mount Grace PrioryMargery KempeThe Book of Margery KempeManuscript: Unknown
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1500-1599		'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is considered to be an early copy [of The Book of Margery ...Margery KempeThe Book of Margery KempeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Margery SharpCluny BrownPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Margery SharpFour GardensPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the livelie...Henry James Margot AsquithDiaryManuscript: Codex


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