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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
 
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed sin...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
1850-1899"In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at...Robert Browning Robert BrowningRed Cotton Nightcap CountryUnknown
1850-1899Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the A...John Ruskin Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
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1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's...Marie Stopes Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus Robert Browning[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy Robert Browning Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Robert Browning Print: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been reading them with deep interest."Henry James Robert BrowningplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningLuriaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he h...Robert Browning Robert BrowningpoemsUnknown
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Celia Cole Robert Browning'Flower's Name, The'Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolRobert Browning Print: Book


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