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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'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Ver...Philip Larkin Paul Verlaine[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few mar...Wilfred Owen Paul Verlaine'Mon Reve Familier'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Despite my opposition ... I looked about for literature that would extend my knowledge of the subject [of Socialism]. One of the first and best discoveries I was a penny...Vero Walter Garratt Paul B. BullWhat Is Socialism?Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Paul Charles Joseph Bourget[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Paul de Rapin-ThoyrasThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 7 December 1848:

'I duly received Dr Curie's work on Homoeopathy, and ought to apologise for having forgotten to thank yo...		Charlotte Brontë Paul Etienne François Gustave Curie?Practice of HomoeopathyPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 7 December 1848:

'I duly received Dr Curie's work on Homoeopathy, and ought to apologise for having forgotten to thank ...		Emily Brontë Paul Etienne François Gustave Curie?Practice of HomoeopathyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d' HolbachSysteme de la nature ou des loix du monde physique...
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey Paul Jérémie BitaubèunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse"Vier Neue Novellen"Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple DiscoursPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, with the punkah swinging overhead, with as much enjoyme...Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple DiscoursPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont multiplies en France bien plus encore que les violo...Edward Morgan Forster Paul-Louis Courier'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been impressed with this awful book, called I Was Hitler's Maid. Barishnikov and Resti think it is true. Very depressing.'Vere Hodgson Pauline KohlerI Was Hitler's MaidPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishi...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe Little KarooManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945 I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would have published them in a small volume, but his publishi...Arnold Bennett Pauline SmithThe BeadleManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I believe you would like Mrs Craven if you could skip all the religion. In the year '86 she has exactly our feelings about Ireland and [the] G.O.M.'s mad folly.'Emma Darwin Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé CravenUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being about 40 pages [...] Read some very interesting mat...George Grote Pausanias  Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Pearl BuckDragon SeedPrint: Book


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