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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
 
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.' Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 23rd. Finish the Monk [...] Buy a Greek Anacreon [...] Read Greek [...] Shelley reads Thalaba aloud in the evening. Write a little Gre[ek] & learn four t...Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud Thalaba in the Evening finishes it. Write Greek -- Read Smellie.' ...Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisTales of WonderPrint: Book
1800-18493 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divided into 3 columns headed, 'Substance', 'Symptoms', ...Dr Sibbald Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure OrfilaA general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how good is it? Easy to say it is not a great book. But ...Virginia Woolf Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf Maurice BaringunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945 I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me throughout its immense length. Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
1900-1945I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quite so strongly as 'C'. As with 'C'., 'C. C.' is stron...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCat's CradlePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which had been sent to him, 7 September 1896.Henry James Maurice BarresDu Sang, de la Volupte et de la MortPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former. I can?t boast that I discovered what purports to be the "central idea" of the novel for myself...Arnold Bennett Maurice BarresLe Jardin de BerenicePrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Maurice BarresJardin de BérénicePrint: Book
1850-1899'Very hot. 92 and a following wind. Read the "Déracinés".' Gertrude Bell Maurice BarrèsLes DéracinésPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Lett...Henry James Maurice de GuerinJournals/LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read two books lately, one in French called "L'Éveil" and another by Una Silberrad called "John "Bolsover". We buy odd books in the village and pass them on when we have...Douglas Herbert Bell Maurice DeroureL'ÉveilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seely came to luncheon yesterday and talked nonsense. He wasted a good deal of our time ... I am reading a book called W.O.2. Not about the war office.'Maurice Baring Maurice DrakeW.O.2Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read Sous Verdun which I liked very much and I am reading Ma Piece which I'm not sure I don't like still better ... It is very early in the morning. Too ear...Maurice Baring Maurice GenevoixSous VerdunPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home next week. I have just read James' "A portrait of a...Edward Morgan Forster Maurice HewlettThe Forest Lovers: A RomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had a long conversation in the tram yesterday with an old maid who had just come back from Florence & talked about pictures, & when I said that I thought Giotto was mo...Maurice HewlettLittle Novels of ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover...Ernest E. Unwin Maurice HewlettLife and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, ThePrint: Book


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