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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'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Heinrich (?) RiehlunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on the nature and essence of man, beginning with him a...Humphry DavyunknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'George Eliot (pseud) John BunyanunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with...Lady Mathew Rhoda BroughtonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has apparently read and admired.Henry James Gabriele D'AnnunziounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed tha...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horace WalpoleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'.John A. Carlyle HumeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselves into our coach, ourselves, our namesake, and a pre...Fanny Kemble unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common material...Sir James Mackintosh Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.'Robert Southey Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...William Wordsworth Jane AustenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ...Hilary Spalding Daphne du MaurierunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot Jacopo Nardi (probably)unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] MarullusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Ginguene in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pierre Louis GingueneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pasquale VillariunknownPrint: Book


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