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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
 
1800-1849W. J. Broderip to John Murray, submitting Captain W. Cornwallis Harris's Wild Sports in South Africa, 8 April 1839: 'Capt. Harris's book is entertaining, and seems t...W. J. Broderip Captain W. Cornwallis HarrisWild Sports in South AfricaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...] then [...] to tea with Nessa [sister] [...] Home, &...Virginia Woolf George BorrowWild WalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher'Mary Shelley Francis BeaumontWild-goose Chase, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833: 'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time, with which I find as many faults and beauties as ev...The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm MeisterPrint: Book
1850-189919 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.' Lady Charlotte Schreiber Wilhelm MeisterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wi...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be able to account for it.'Margaret A. Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would ...Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country property and read a little of Wilhelm Meister.' [readings from this...Claire Clairmont GoetheWilhelm Meister's LehrjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's WanderjahrePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's WanderjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'Somerset Maugham Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters LehrjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or WanderjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'With my own share of the Packet I feel not less contented. Especially glad was I to find my old favourite the Wanderjahre so considerably enlarged: the new portions of ...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Donaldson has seen my will too with your name written in it in great letters. No matter! why should I be ashamed of shewing an affection which I am not ashamed to f...Mr Donaldson Jane Baillie WelshWillManuscript: Will
1850-1899'I have just returned from Clarence where I found only a few Mothers, but some very agreeable ladies amongst them. I read them "Barbara T[t]hwaite" by which they were muc...Gertrude Bell Florence BellWill o' the Wisp Print: Book
1900-1945'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read. It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing book. Just ...William Henry Hudson George GissingWill WarburtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt with his historical work & his position as an histo...Alfred Rawlings Goldwin SmithWilliam Lloyd GarrisonPrint: Book


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