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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 got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, & as we go to Switzerland tomorrow . . . I write at o...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisUnpath'd WatersPrint: 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 Dorothy L SayersUnpleasantness at the Bellona Club, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opinion. We think it has more of the Spirit & Entertain...James Edward Austen James Edward Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rath...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great pleasure. I think you are going very well.'Jane Austen Anna Lefroyunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the ...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any top...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease & spirit; - if he can carry it on in the same way, it...Jane Austen James Edward Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Thank you very much for Mr Holliday's book, which has certainly got a lot of good things in it and which I enjoyed greatly.'Joseph Conrad Robert Cortes HollidayunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could have it in the ...Isaac Rosenberg William ShakespeareunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945‘A cheap dinner and so to King’s Cross an hour early to get a Corner Seat … I read some Israel Zangwill as far as the Midlands. Then … slept. I woke up as we were rou...Wilfred Owen Israel ZangwillunspecifiedPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad Prosper MériméeunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s "Travailleurs...Joseph Conrad Edward LearunspecifiedPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Conrad]admitted he was a Victorian, and that most of his reading was in nineteenth- century authors. He had [...] read Poe in French. He was fond of Emerson and Whit...Joseph Conrad Edgar Allan PoeunspecifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like immensely your verse in the last E[nglish R[eview]. The second piece for choice but as a matter of fact I like best the one I am reading at the time.' Joseph Conrad John Galsworthyunspecified poem(s)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad Thomas Hardyunspecified poetryPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Juvenal, 'Vnto the wiser Gods the care permit'. Elizabeth Lyttelton JuvenalUnto the wiser Gods the care permit,Print: Book
1850-1899'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him...F.W. Jowett John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were ...Violet Markham John RuskinUnto This LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book


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