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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" ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met."Henry James Joseph Ernest RenanunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 9 May 1873: "Some time since I began to read Tasso with Miss Bartlett and though he is very delicious I have let it become rather desu...Henry James and Miss BartlettTorquato TassounknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the mornings, walk about in the afternoons, and doze over a b...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemble read Calderon for me tete a tete of a morning."Fanny Kemble Pedro Calderon de la BarcaunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Queen Mary], were very modest ... I know him only as w...Henry James Alfred TennysonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert JamesonUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'English at the moment is super - we are doing the history of drama, and Hazlitt, both most interesting.'Hilary Spalding William HazlittunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'1944 My Favourite: Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele" Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols Poems: Hiawatha. Arabia Writers: Shaw. Dorothy Sayers'.Hilary Spalding Beverley NicholsunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They are really amazing things.'Hilary Spalding unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.'Hilary Spalding John MiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.'Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum Club ... a little way off is the portly Archbishop of... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Eliot [pseud] Torquato TassounknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam ShakespeareunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] CummingunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a...Thomas Carlyle August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebueUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me....Thomas Carlyle Jean le Rond D'AlembertUnknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesTheodor (?) SchwannunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel SwedenborgunknownPrint: Book


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