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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'Seely came to luncheon yesterday and talked nonsense. He wasted a good deal of our time ... I am reading a book called W.O.2. Not about the war office.'Maurice Baring Maurice DrakeW.O.2Print: Book
1850-1899'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until after eleven o'clock though I did little more than ski...John Buckley Castieau Mark LemonWait for the EndPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I arrived half-dead at La Neuville, and slept there for twelve hours or more. The next day we went to Braches, and then on foot to Rouvrel. About there, the countr...Herbert Edward Read Henry David ThoreauWaldenPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Gilly's Waldensian Researches'. Transcription of several lines beginning '"A very little experience and ob...William Stephen GillyWaldensian Researches, during a Second Visit to th...Print: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'Thomas Kitching [unknown]Walking in the GrampiansPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'.George Eliot and G.H. LewesS.T. ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my opinion perfectly beautiful'.Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] June 4th. [...] After dinner [...] M.G. [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] reads to me Schiller's Wallenstein.' Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 8th. [...] I read Wallenstein and give my lessons.' [readings in this text also recorded in journal entries for 9, 13, 15, 17, 26 June 1825, wit...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was litt...George Grote SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 20 August 1800: 'Read Wallenstein and sent it off ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Friedrich von SchillerWallenstein (in translation by S. T. Coleridge)Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Frances ParkWalls Against the WindPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning we have read and talked — it's very wet so we haven't been out. I have been reading Mr Morley's "Walpole" which Sir Lewis [?Louis] Mallet says is supr...Gertrude Bell John MorleyWalpolePrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberHorace WalpoleWalpolianaPrint: Book
1900-1945A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand.Vernon Lee A.C. BensonWalter PaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Walther and some of Rienzi'Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineWalther oder das Kind vom SchlachtfeldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis...Mary Godwin August H.J. LafontaineWalther oder das Kind vom SchlachtfeldPrint: Book
1800-1849'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I a...Thomas Carter James MontgomeryWanderer in Switzerland, and other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'Mary Godwin Fanny BurneyWanderer, ThePrint: Book


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