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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844: '[Frederic Soulie] was one of the first of the new French school I ventured to approach, & he made me open...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and that sentence begins admirably, although its feet are o...Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Cornelius Mathews, mid-January 1847: 'We live here in the most secluded manner, eschewing English visitors and reading Vasari'.Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGiorgio VasariunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'Robert Louis Stevenson Patrice de MacMahonunknownPrint: Poster
1850-1899'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all sense that one differed from another. I am reading...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940: 'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridge I bought in an old type copy tarnished cover, ye...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled brains.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy ...Oscar Wilde Algernon Charles SwinburneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book for L[eonard]. & so home, missing my train, & readin...Virginia Woolf Gilbert MurrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues that Tolstoy's commands were for men of looser life t...Gerald Shove Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a copy out of my own pocket money before you were wea...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'Vita Sackville-West unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015)Robert Louis Stevenson Katharine de MattosunknownManuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours".
1900-1945'The parties of Proust gain in fantasy from being read in such circumstances, (I don't mean in the bath, but on deck;) they recede, achieve a perspective; they become his...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I meant to have written such a lot, but somehow I haven't; there's always a whale or a murder to look at, (a tortoise or a theorbo!) so I have written a few letters, - p...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustunknownPrint: Book
1900-19452 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due to influenza]; but I did finally read Morley & othe...Virginia Woolf John, Viscount MorleyunknownPrint: Book


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