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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'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'Joseph Conrad Richard CurleScandals of the DolePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Richard CurleJoseph Conrad: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'Joseph Conrad Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt']I Say Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Diary entry, 29 August 1831 "I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Richard DawesMiscellanea CriticaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been highly approved of in this their new form by my daught...Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia GaskellRichard DoyleBird's-eye Views of SocietyPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Fanshawe, 'A Happy Life out of Martial'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard FanshaweA Happy Life out of MartialPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about his "Essay of Poesy" - and a letter in answer to th...Richard Flecknoe [?]A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, ...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ...Print: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Richard GloverLeonidas, A PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'The Leonidas is a very fine poem in my opinion. J. Warton says it is written with the simplici...Robert Southey Richard GloverLeonidasPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverBoadiciaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: '& now to literary subjects. Glover has written the two Tragedies of Boadicea & Medea. in the f...Robert Southey Richard GloverMedeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White[on Copyright]Print: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant WhiteWashington AdamsPrint: Book
1700-1799?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?th which I was much entertain?d) & other books of the...John Marsh Richard GravesThe spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of M...Print: Book
1500-1599'and reed of Granhame tell supper time'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book


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