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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'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever seen". When he refused to give it up, the warder said h...Arthur Symons George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonation?. How efficiently this stuff is written. Exci...Gerald Moore Robert HerrickunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbro...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some music, some reading, talk and smokes. Very satisfacto...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. [...] Queerly enough, though Pioch himself is a To...Gerald Moore Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore BrooksunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Artemus WardunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Sir Paul Rycaut is mistaken (as he commonly is) in calling the sect [italics] muterin [italics].'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studyi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this lette...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirabl...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr HillunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which account I am apt to believe was designed to compliment our...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than any other voyage-writer): he says that there are no re...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu GemelliunknownUnknown
1700-1799'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking of these ruins, supposes them to have been the found...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr SandysUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book


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