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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 'V. of W. gets out of his [depth] 1/2 w...Edward Morgan Forster Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three chapters to Harry who was very attentive & in a sad s...John Buckley Castieau Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar of Wakefield," and likewise that I do not [...] Ind...Elizabeth Carter Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837: 'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the extrac...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeThe Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits aloud. Polly who was very tired got interested also & pr...John Buckley Castieau George MacDonaldThe Vicar's DaughterPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 17 August 1866: 'We took Lionel [son] to school at Hastings [...] We then left for Park House, Maidstone [...] In the evening, at the Lu...Alfred Tennyson The Victim, or The Norse Queen
1600-1699'Then with Creed, and read over with him the Narrative of the late [fight], which he makes a very poor thing of, as endeed it is, and speaks most slightingly of that whol...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Samuel Pepys John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1600-1699'But this morning, getting Sir W. Penn to read over the Narrative with me - he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have intercepted their Zealand squadron comin...Sir William Penn John CreedThe victory over the fleet of the States General ....Unknown
1850-1899'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] Henry HallamThe View of the State of Europe during the Middle ...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward Harold BegbieThe VigilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday. Finished Orcival. Read "Vigil" by Harold Begbie. 4-5 Service. Spoilt all by laughing. Sorry for parson.'William Thomas Harold BegbieThe VigilPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it se...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Villa RubeinPrint: Book
1900-1945I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you are much more likely to be right than I am. 'A Gent...Arnold Bennett Ivan Alexeyevich BuninThe VillagePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Mary Pollard Ivan BuninThe VillagePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extracts from the works of various authors who had rece...		Dorothea Taylor Eugene O'NeillThe Village All God’s Chillun Got WingsPrint: Book
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 John GayThe Village CuratePrint: Book
1900-1945Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913: 'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have...Maurice B. Wright Leonard WoolfThe Village in the JunglePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that...Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Isabella ThackerayThe Village on the Cliff. A Novel.Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine" (a pretty good play) all the way.'Samuel Pepys Thomas PorterThe VillainePrint: Book


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