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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
 
1850-1899'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp...Leslie Stephen Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...Amelia Opie George BorrowunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.'Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were a Bible, a wooden spoon, a salt cellar, and one oth...Dora Montefiore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'This day I finished Thucydides, after reading him with inexpressible interest and admiration. He is the greatest historian that ever lived. Feb 27, 1835'.Lord Macaulay ThucydidesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.'Lord Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the beginning of February 1835'. Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834 The second in January and the beginning of February 1835 The third on the Sundays from ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.'Arnold Bennett Gertrude SteinunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee."Henry James Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't b...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here I expect to stay. You may imagine that existence h...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Johann Wolfgang von GoetheunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Stendhal unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Charles de BrossesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Nathaniel HawthorneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rome], but in the intervals of sightseeing find a rare ...Henry James Stendhal unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Charles-Augustin Saint-BeuveunknownPrint: Unknown


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