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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 Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading you...Henry James Francis ParkmanMontcalm and WolfePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in which you devote a few lines to the silly article in t...Henry James G. W. Smalleyarticle on American novelsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..."Henry James PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night. I read it this morning before I left...Henry James George Pellewdissertation on Jane Austen's novelsPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming ...Henry James Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson[book on Greek history]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the mornings, walk about in the afternoons, and doze over a b...Henry James unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I linger in a darkened room all the forenoon, reading...Henry James unknown"lightish books"Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so that I may at least spend a few summer hours with you i...Henry James unknownvarious works (dealing with Innsbruck)Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickened of late by the perusal of a little book by our fri...Henry James Leslie StephenThe Playgrounds of EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..."Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper
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
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: "[A] reflection I have ... ventured upon: to the purpose that the departure of t...Henry James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: "[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the papers that I largely manage to forget that I am doing ...Henry James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."Henry James Grace Norton[unidentified articles]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw...Henry James Visitors' booksManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American...Henry James American newspaper telegramsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and St...visitors staying at Great Malvern The TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 6 April 1869, on fellow spa visitors, Great Malvern: "They are mostly a plain, civil, amiable lot -- addicted to reading the Telegraph and St...visitors staying at Great Malvern The StandardPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two to thank him for his own beautiful volume which I ha...Henry James Charles Eliot NortonHistorical Studies of Church Building in the Middl...Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after de...Henry James Graham BalfourLife of Robert Louis StevensonPrint: Book


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