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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
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said] Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to his Son", I think, might be made a very pretty book. Take out the immorality, and it should be put into the hands of ever...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' James Boswell Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldMemoirs and Last LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Howard R. Smith Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield[letter to his son]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:] 'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete system of French morality that ever disgraced the Eng...Elizabeth Carter Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot...Thomas Carlyle Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking ma...Benjamin Newton Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord ChesterfieldLord Chesterfield's letters to his sonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton Art Essays Print: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Philip Gilbert HamertonThe Intellectual LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor)The Portfolio: An Artistic PeriodicalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ibsen. Kathleen Rawlings sang a song from Peer Gynt co...Helen Rawlings Philip H. WicksteedFour Lectures on Henrik IbsenPrint: Book
1850-1899'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Paris to see her [Julia, her daughter, who was unwell] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very grand [both words underlined] things in festus... I have...Alfred Tennyson Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterli...Elizabeth Barrett Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterli...anon Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much ...Elizabeth Barrett Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much ...Elizabeth Barrett Philip James BaileyAdditional scene for FestusPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Philip James Bailey Print: Book
1800-1849'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bat...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to His SonPrint: Book
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


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