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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
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Honore de BalzacLettres a l'EtrangerePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the livelie...Henry James Margot AsquithDiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and reserves'.Henry James E.M. De Vogüé Jean d'AgrevePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is extraordinarily keen and delicate and able [...] On...Henry James Mrs Everard CotesHis Honour and a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I tho...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very easy."Henry James unknownItalian textsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster. It is admirable material, and excellently presente...Henry James Henry James Sranecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster")Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of James Fisk]. I have just been reading in the Roman ne...Henry James Roman newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think it seems prettily enough argued."Henry James Grant Allenarticle (?in response to work by William James)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William Jamesarticle on "Brute and Human Intellect"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William JamesarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing ...Henry James unknown[extracted texts]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer. I have howeve...Henry James Henry James Sr[book]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..."Henry James Mrs Humphry WardMiss BrethertonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over the King [Victor Emmanuel II]'s death, and that I di...Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in which I [italics]can[end italics] read (or at least ...Henry James unknown"the Green Book"Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, a...Henry James Mrs W. K. CliffordThe Getting Well of DorothyPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which has come and which I find of an irresistible distract...Henry James George SantayanaInterpretations of Poetry and ReligionPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing and the sapience -- to say nothing of the tortuosity ...Henry James George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustne...Henry James Thomas Babington MacaulayLifePrint: Book


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