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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
 
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliMaster ChristainPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M...Millicent Duchess of Sutherland Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.'Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book
'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Park...Joseph Parker Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no...Marie CorelliHoly OrdersPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"G. H. Hardy Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1900-1945"Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work o...Rupert Brooke Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'."Harry and Mary DrewMarie CorelliVendettaPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critic...Arnold Bennett Marie Corelli? The Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...Edward Prince of Wales Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r...George Duke of York Marie CorellinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.' Arnold Bennett Marie CorelliSorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918: 'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book which teaches you exactly how not to write. The difficul...Leonard Woolf Marie Corelliextracts from novelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Charles Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Cornish writers Silas and Joseph Hocking ("Rosemary Carew...Mrs Causley Marie CorelliSorrows of Satan, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Marie CorelliZiskaPrint: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She makes little progress with Cook because of her fasci...Frances Burney Marie de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'... I took up a volume with the uncompromising title My Past by a Countess Marie Larisch... T. S. Eliot was certainly one who read it, and before he wrote The Waste Land...T. S. Eliot Marie LarischMy PastPrint: Book


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