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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
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Philippe Quinault, 'Autre'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Philippe QuinaultAutrePrint: libretto
1850-1899'I read […] Comines […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Philippe de ComminesMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Philippe de la Clyle, sire de ComminesThe History of Philip de ComminesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model - it shall be "L'Homme Singulier".'Hester Lynch Thrale Philippe Nericault DestouchesL'Homme SingulierPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamContes CruelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamNouveaux Contes CruelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney Philippe-Paul, comte de SegurHistoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendan...Print: Book
1900-1945'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for another in him but I fancy too macabre (and improper)...Joseph Conrad Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812Print: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsNettle DangerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThe Sons and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThe Amazing SummerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThrough the Dark NightPrint: Book
1850-1899?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of Bailey?s "Festus", which I read with great admiration...Thomas Burt Phillip James BaileyFestus: A poemPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y...Aneurin Bevan Phillips Oppenheim[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599
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 Philostratus unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some fat volumes of Campbell's "British Poets", the comple...Thomas A. Jackson Phineas Fletcher[poems complete works]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Phineas FletcherThe Purple Island, or, the Isle of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.'Vera Brittain Phyllis BentleyInheritancePrint: Book


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