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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'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'Joseph Conrad Henry NewboltThe Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the bat...Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.'John Maynard Keynes Virginia WoolfThe YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 March 1937: 'Ethel rings up to say she has re-read Years, under Miss [Alice] Hudson [JP]'s direction, & finds it no longer unintelligible, but superb -- How ca...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfThe YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense, but I do get tired of the perpetual pillow fights....Edith Sitwell Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler)The Young and the EvilPrint: Book
1900-1945 Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God you can tell a story! Also the first half of the book...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe Young EnchantedPrint: Book
1900-1945'And first of all my tender thanks for the copy of the limited edition [...]. The reading of it was an absorbing experience.'Joseph Conrad Hugh WalpoleThe Young Enchanted: A Romantic StoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis...John Marsh Charlotte SmithThe Young PhilosopherPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Darcy LeverThe Young Sea Officer's Sheet AnchorPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 13 May 1827: 'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes reading the new and interesting volumes of Cyril Thorn...Walter Scott Captain Thomas HamiltonThe Youth and Manhood of Cyril ThorntonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaetetus inclusive: which last dialogue, I venture to th...John Stuart Mill PlatoTheaetetusPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to theologians & metaphysicians. That education tends to ...Robert Southey Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin (Madame de Genlis)Theatre de l'EducationPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Philip Wentworth BuckhamTheatre of the GreeksPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory. One was sent to me from a paper called the Mir...Fanny Kemble anontheatre review in The MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory. One was sent to me from a paper called the Mir...Fanny Kemble anontheatre reviewsPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entert...John Opie HolcroftTheatrical recorderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyjoo, a very clever work in 14 volumes; and I am now r...Elizabeth Smith FeyjooTheatro critico universalePrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler CorneilleTheatro du Grand CorneillesPrint: Book
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler RacineTheatro et oevres de RacinePrint: Book
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1600-1699		'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Theodore ZwingerTheatrumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my booksellers and there spent an hour looking over "Theatrum Urbium" and "Flandria illustrata", with excellent cuts, with great content.'Samuel Pepys J BlaeuTheatrum civitatum... Italie [OR] Ubrium praecipua...Print: Book


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