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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
 
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneUne Famille au temps de LutherPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and somehow weaker than ?La Terre?, but also one of the Rougon...Gerald Moore Emile ZolaUne Page d'AmourPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844: 'The only work of Eugene Sue which I have read among those you ask about, is "Le Salamandre" [...] The on...Mary Russell Mitford Honore de BalzacUne tenebreuse affairePrint: Book
1900-1945'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.'Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -- in comparison [to last chapter of own work in prog...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have corrected all the proofs of The Old Wives Tale — 578pp. I am sure Tertia is wrong about those two chapters. I deliberately lowered the tension in the last ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantUne Vie Print: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Logan Pearsall SmithUnforgotten YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasunidentifiedManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of lines by '"Maria Blanche - eldest daughter of Madame de Grignan. She became a Nun in the Conven...Marie Blanche de GrignanunidentifiedUnknown
1900-1945'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodious soul. I see quite a new aspect of you in these few...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsunidentifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have the read the two July articles just before that period [of depression or at least writer's block] began. Evidently my dearest boy it is your synthesis, of course ...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsunidentifiedPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 5 October 1913: 'It's a good little sketch I think, and shows you can do a catastrophe if you choose. I never guessed he had murdered hi...E. M. Forster Forrest Reidunidentified 'sketch'Unknown
1850-1899'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Aimardunidentified novelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile [s...Fanny Knight Jane Austenunidentified work in MSManuscript: novel in MS
1900-1945I have found what I hope is an unknown and useful manuscript of local history and am copying it out. It has a nice miracle recorded. Someone made fun of a holy man ...Freya Stark unknown unknownunidentified Yemeni manuscriptManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Elizabeth T. Alexander Janet RawlingsUniformsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialised abridgements of Walter Scott novels, with more sen...Frederick Willis n/aUnion JackPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all...John Mitchel [n/a]United IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett United MethodistPrint: Serial / periodical


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