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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'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The Mortal Storm and books like Fallen Bastions now. I a...Phyllis BottomeThe Mortal StormPrint: Book
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Phyllis Reid[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is that Clifford doesn't admire your poetry!! so that s...Phyllis Reid Phyllis Reid[a poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotate...Mary Astell Pierre BaylePensees diverses vol 1Print: Book
1700-1799'"Bayle's Dictionary is a very useful work for those to consult who love the biographical part of literature, which is what I love most." Talking of the eminent writer...Samuel Johnson Pierre BayleHistorical and Critical DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Pierre BeaumarchaisM?moires contre GoezmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine building. Photo of mother as one of the council n...Gerald Moore Pierre BenoitAtlandidePrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88Vernon Lee Pierre BonnierL'orientationPrint: Book
1700-1799'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and such nobleness'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Pierre CorneilleCinnaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleLe CidPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 13 Canto of Ariosto - Le Cid - Horace of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleHoracePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 14th Canto of Ariosto and Cinna of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneilleCinnaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 15th Canto of Ariosto & the Polieucte of Corneille'Mary Shelley Pierre CorneillePolyeuctePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique'; 'Sur la tragedie'; 'Sur les trois unites').Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleTrois DiscoursPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of Corneille I've struck [...] Antiochus and Seleucus ...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleRodogunePrint: Book
1900-1945'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have such a great admiration for authorship. After just fin...Arthur Vanson Pierre de CoulerainAu Coeur de la ViePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury, and his household's change of residence:] ...Catherine Talbot Pierre de MarivauxLe Spectateur FrancoisPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artful...Dr Warburton Pierre DesmaiseauxLa vie de Boileau-DespréauxPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Pierre JurieuThe History of the Council of TrentPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... 'Emma Darwin Pierre LanfreyHistory of Napoleon IPrint: Book


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