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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
 
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Virgin and the GypsyPrint: 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 Virgin and the GypsyPrint: 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 Virgin and the GypsyPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You didn't send him to me -- you never send me anything; ...Henry James Owen WisterThe VirginianPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...William Makepeace ThackerayThe VirginiansPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:] 'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! What? Why a reflection upon the Vision, but that was...Catherine Talbot George Lord LytteltonThe VisionPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not be...Alfred Tennyson Plato The Vision of ErPrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning...Victor Sawdon Pritchett James Russell LowellThe Vision of Sir LaunfalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your letter & the little Book. (The Vision Splendid by John Oxenham) That was a ripping little poem wasn't it? I guess it's just about right!' Guy Mainwaring Knocker John Oxenham (pseud.)The Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1900-1945‘We make another sally today … I have the parcel, and the letters and J. Oxenham’s books … "The V.[Vision] Splendid" contains several real poems: those indeed which y...Wilfred Owen John OxenhamThe Vision SplendidPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dante AlighieriThe Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alighieri DanteThe Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Alighieri DanteThe Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of Don Quevedo". It was, of course, a book from which ...Thomas Carter Francisco de QuevedoThe Visions of Don QuevedoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dante - History of 2 Viziers - Sismondi'Mary Shelley Madame Fauques de VaucluseThe Vizirs; or, the Enchanted Labyrinth. An orient...Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott quotes two lines from 'The Vocal Miscellany': 'Come, come my Hearts of Gold' (163) and ' Every man take a glass in his hand' (103).Walter Scott The Vocal MiscellanyUnknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been working with Shakespeare (a very good book) with an occasional dip into Aiken, and my B flats and Bs really do sound like them now, although I still get stif...Peter Pears W A AikenThe Voice: An Introduction to Practical PhonologyPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
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 VoyageUnknown


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