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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
 
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballantrae, the new novel ... [R. L. Stevenson] is about t...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraeManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which has just reached me by your command. I have had tim...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonBalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your prose volume (kindly vouchsafed me in the little copy...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonThe South SeasPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... read the ballad book -- with the admiration that I a...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonBalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of some of your happiest lucubrations put forth by the c...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonAcross the PlainsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day that I could put my hand on the Island Nights, which...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonIsland NightsPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrive...Edwin Muir Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleRobert Louis Stevenson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly Review of 1881, on ?some technical elements of styl...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonSome technical elements of style in literatuePrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table he stood before us with a manuscript in his hand......Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonFather Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr H...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWeir of HermistonManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonThe Witch Woman
1850-1899One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...anon Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My brothers and I have lived the book ["Treasure Island"] many times and the Bois de Boulogne is full of places that we re-christened with Treasure Island names such as ...Arthur Vanson Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899?Morley has accepted the "Fables" and I have seen it in proof and think less of it than ever.? Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"On Lord Lytton's Fables in Song"Manuscript: Sheet, Proof of the article
1850-1899?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may s...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonVictor Hugo's RomancesPrint: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1850-1899'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"Victor Hugo's Romances"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?


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