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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
 
1800-1849'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'Mary Godwin Fanny BurneyWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances Burney, Madame d'ArblayWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Next morning at breakfast, [10th June 1784] he pointed out a passage in Savage's "Wanderer", saying, "These are fine verses". "If (said he) I had written with hostility ...Samuel Johnson Richard SavageWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Penseroso from the Verses at the beginning, Savage his ...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard SavageWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very best manner. I felt disappointed, though, at Wandering...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWandering Willie's TalePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale"....George Saintsbury Walter ScottWandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)Print: Book
1900-1945'Just a line to thank you for the book. As I turn the pages my consideration for you grows to the proportions of respect. There is a beauty of easy moving prose - charm o...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleWanderingsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, accompanied by comment 'His s...Edward Morgan Forster Charles WatertonWanderings in South AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.George Eliot [pseud] Fanny LewaldWandlungenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I've read Jack's article in the "Speaker". Hum! Hum! He had better be careful.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyWanted - Schooling in FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[I am reading] 'An endeavour to see whether or not war can sort of be got under control for the future. (Freud; War & Death)'Sigmund FreudWar and deathPrint: Book
1900-1945'As Conrad read for an hour or to before turning in, our one lamp, of the cheap paraffin variety, was hung on a nail close to his bunk, and was generally kept alight ...Joseph Conrad Hartley WithersWar and Lombard StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] and am struck by the fact that I now protest as much a...Henry James Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'.Henry James Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat in a seat in the square, my neighbours were mainly old men wrapped in dowdy overcoats and growling spasmodically to each other. I continued to read "War and Peace"...Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost forgotten. Always the same reality -- like touching...Virginia Stephen Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'Long long evening — the children played Corelli's sonatas, I read "Guerre et Paix", felt dreadfully depressed.'Gertrude Bell Leo TolstoyWar and Peace Print: Book
1900-1945‘Have you read "Harry Richmond" lately? I like the first part of the book immensely, but skipped afterwards—copiously and vigorously. On the whole, "Evan Harrington" ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Of all the written words of Man that help one submit to Destiny I know nothing more persuasive than that part of "War and Peace" which tells of Pierre’s captivity an...Ivor Bertie Gurney Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book


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