Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   1203 1204 1205 1206 1207  1208  1209 1210 1211 1212 1213   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only ...Emily De Quincey John Greenleaf WhittierunknownUnknown
1850-1899'I met a rum old army doctor, called Lewins, who sent me a paper of his, full of matter that would not be very gratifying to the elect: In which paper he has the followin...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert LewinsunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Richard Sorabji LyttonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he said in parts and is inclined to prophesy a great success...Rudyard Kipling Cornelia SorabjiunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I've just read Nelson. It is very good. Some criticism can be made mainly on the point that you presuppose too much knowledge of facts in your readers. Still we shall t...Joseph Conrad Norman Douglasunknown Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Arthur Tennyson on his brother Alfred's childhood reading: 'He was always a great reader; and if he went alone he would take his book with him on his walk. One day in ...Alfred Tennyson unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre-Jean BerangerunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the delight of my scholarship work in that long-ago that w...Vera Brittain William WordsworthunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped...Vera Brittain Johan August StrindbergunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BurnsunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Allan Ramsayunknown Print: Book
1850-1899'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dict...Robert Louis Stevenson Lope de VegaunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Juvenal des UrsinsunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theodore William Alois BuckleyunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells, I had come to realise history as the whole story of...Vera Brittain F.S. MarvinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'Vera Brittain W.N.P. BarbellionunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern Writers on Modern Writers". When he invited her to ...Winifred Holtby Virginia WoolfunknownPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   1203 1204 1205 1206 1207  1208  1209 1210 1211 1212 1213   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design