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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'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoint...Edward Little Ralph Waldo Emerson Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his life & C.E. Stansfield on his philosophic standpoint...Charles Stansfield Ralph Waldo Emerson Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:

'I never read Emerson; but the book which has had so healing an effect on your mind must be a good one [......		William Smith Williams Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 4 February 1849:

'I send the parcel [returning books loaned by Williams] up without delay [...] Emerson's ...		Charlotte Brontė Ralph Waldo EmersonEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 June 1849:

'I have always forgotten to acknowledge the receipt of the parcel [of books, regularly sent ...		Charlotte Brontë Ralph Waldo Emerson[Essay]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that intuition is before reason (or facts). It certainly doe...Emma Darwin Ralph Waldo EmersonUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ralph Waldo TrineIn Tune with the InfinitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the every page that shows so plainly how Napoleon first ...Ramsey MuirA Short History of the British CommonwealthPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Ramus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Rapin de ThoyrasHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Ha...Vera Brittain Raymond SwingHarper's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845: 'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not as vivid as most of these books from France, -- nor a...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Raymond Brucker and Michel MassonLe maconPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses Rupert Brooke's pencilled notes, "clearly made out on a single reading," in copy of Raymond Macdonald Alden, Introduction to Poetry for Students o...Rupert Brooke Raymond Macdonald AldenIntroduction to Poetry for Students of English Lit...Print: Book
1800-1849Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L...Ellen Heaton Rebecca HeyThe Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for your prettily bound little volume which I feel sure must be interesting to all your mother's friends. There is no doubt something gracious always in the si...Oscar Wilde Rebecca SmithBrief Memorials of Departed Worth: being sketches ...Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as interpreted by the woman character who tells the story.'...Gerald Moore Rebecca WestReturn of the SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even Robert Lynd considers it difficult. I?ve just finis...Winifred Agnes Moore Rebecca WestThe Strange NecessityPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage. She pours it all in; and one is covered with flyi...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree that the convention is tight and affected and occa...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestHarriet HumePrint: Book


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