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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
 
1600-1699'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.Isaac Archer Jeremy TaylorunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Austin DobsonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and studying such treasure-troves of style as the travel b...Winifred Holtby Walter RaleighunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the exciteme...Vera Brittain Olive SchreinerunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Dearest - I found not only a load of Books on Saturday, but eight proof sheets besides; the consideration and alteration of which, attended with other sorry enough drawb...Thomas Carlyle Unknown UnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'As Lawrence (+ sign of cross - not christian cross - no devil down in Hell: [Christian cross] (!!)) said 'The reason the English Middle Classes chew every mouthful 30 ti...Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian unknownPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanized their language; it appears to me a thing impossibl...Robert Southey Paul Jérémie BitaubèunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'All the same I've read your two short stories. Very good both. Very good indeed. But I am not going to think out a string of complimentary phrases for you. You are a big...Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no unhappiness, to a journey in a stage Coach, six passen...C.M.G. [anon] RichardsonunknownUnknown
1800-1849'Jeffrey has sent me a note requesting the Ops Majus by the middle of next month, and enclosing a draft of twenty guineas for the article on Richter. You may conceive wh...Thomas Carlyle Franz HornUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the 17th inst.! And I shan’t have read anything of them...Arnold Bennett unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Algernon SwinburneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading the manuscript.' Joseph Conrad Jean Gachet de la FournièreunknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Today I saw a good review of your book ["Bernal Diaz del Castillo"] in the D[ai]ly Chr[onicle]: by some woman. I am going to get the vol. forthwith.' Joseph Conrad Agnes HerbertunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Tristan] Bernard is very engaging. I do not know why but he is.[...] It is very good of you to have sent me that volume with the others. [Elémir] Bourges--ah, that's an...Joseph Conrad Tristan BernardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dia...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book


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