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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 believe [Arthur] Symons' verse was almost the only verse that my husband ever read, I mean with any real appreciation and pleasure. Usually I had to read any manuscrip...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on he talked laughingly of the cheap editions he had been wont to buy of Mark Twain's masterpieces, and spoke reminiscently of reading these books when he was on t...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place, his bed had to be hospitable to a heap of books, a...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Maxime Du CampunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Benjamin Constant de RebecqueunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was during all these years that he [Conrad] read. Men at sea read an inordinate amount.[...] A large percentage of the letters received by writers from readers come f...Joseph Conrad Ellen WoodunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Conrad's face would cloud over. He would snatch up a volume of Racine and read half a dozen lines.'Joseph Conrad Jean RacineunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning I stayed in and read some most illuminating articles on Sufyism. There's a lot to know, but I guess I'll know some of it before I've done.'Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Serial / periodical, probably a periodical
1850-1899'Did I ever tell you with how great an interest I had read your reminiscences of Carlyle and Mrs C.?'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Even George Meredith says: "It contains a remarkable study of love."'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I could read well when very young (as is before hinted) spending much time with my afflicted father, I read much to him; and the experiences and sufferings of faithful m...Henry Payton unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1700-1799'My natural disposition was very volatile, and my apprehension very quick; and as my faculties opened, I delighted much in books of a very contrary nature and tendency to...Catherine Payton unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'And here I may add, that from the time I came from school, I read little, save religious books; and after I appeared in ministry, until late in life, reading even then w...Catherine Payton Phillips unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter, 22 November 1813]

'I have just been reading Anne Caldwell's play and am delighted with it.'		Jessie Allen Anne CaldwellUnknownUnknown
1800-1849'We have been reading the new edition of Wordsworth's poetry, in which there are several new things.'Sarah Wedgwood and the Miss AllensWilliam WordsworthUnknownPrint: Book


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