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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 Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mme. Blaze de Bury -- an Englishwoman with a French hu...Mme. Blaze de Bury Henry JamesstoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You didn't send him to me -- you never send me anything; ...Henry James Owen WisterThe VirginianPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with immediate attention and with the highest appreciation'.Henry James Paul BourgetLes Deux SoeursPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have read the whole thing with the intensity [italics] q...Henry James Paul BourgetDrames de FamillePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of ...Henry James Josiah RoycePhi Beta address on the work and influence of Will...Print: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with...Lady Mathew Rhoda BroughtonunknownPrint: 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, 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, 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, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I ha...Henry James Marcelin MarbotMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything...Henry James H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything...Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..."Henry James Edmund GosseLife of CongrevePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other night to American literati to thank them for praying...Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's in genial rejoinder to my article in the same periodi...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
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
1900-1945Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I re...Henry James Rudyard KiplingKimPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): "I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Olympe] Desclee [actress]'s being about to appear with...Henry James newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe...Henry James Elizabeth Drew StoddardThe MorgesonsPrint: Unknown


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