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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'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old authors.'Robert Louis Stevenson WebsterunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accen...Hannah Woolley unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'.Percy Bysshe Shelley LucianunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... a few chapters of Herodotus ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; read the preface and seventy or ei...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Torquato] TassounknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'.Robert Louis Stevenson Henry George BohnunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your Chicago article was very good.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have been reading...Calvin.' Robert Louis Stevenson John CalvinunknownUnknown
1900-1945'The other day I read an article by Lady Roberts, quite a good one- but it does not help to demand that everybody should his share in the war. You have got to tell people...Lady RobertsunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to walk to the library, bus every 45 minutes, next one to... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no idea what we're up against, but I think the Germans ar... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I am quite happy I read decent books, and the wireless... unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'Robert Louis Stevenson John KnoxunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' Arnold Bennett Ren GhilunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' Arnold Bennett Emile VerhaerenunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.' Arnold Bennett Edmund RostandunknownUnknown
1850-1899'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end italics] put in an extract. Please explain...'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Percy Bysshe Shelley unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownUnknown


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