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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
 
1900-1945I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the reference to this passage? One of them is entitled 'Pious...Arnold Bennett Chartres BironPious OpinionsPrint: Book
1850-1899I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre-Jean BerangerunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945I am wading through “Barry Lyndon” the first book of Thackeray’s I have ever got into and I don’t find it at all too bad.Arthur Morris William Makepeace ThackerayThe Luck of Barry LyndonPrint: Book
1700-1799I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C...Samuel Richardson Fulke GrevilleMaxims, Characters and ReflectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C...Samuel Richardson Thomas BrowneChristian MoralsPrint: Book
1900-1945I can remember at the age of fourteen the tranquillity which a first reading of the Phaedon, the death of Socrates, gave me - a widening of the bounds of life which...Freya Stark Moses MendelssohnPhaedonPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith Philip DoddridgeThe Family ExpositorPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [anon]The Scholar ArmedPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [unknown]The Dissenter Tripped UpPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of ...Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by thi...Arnold Bennett Philip GibbsRealities of WarPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamContes CruelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamNouveaux Contes CruelsPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamL'Eve FuturePrint: Book
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I don?t know whether I imagined it, but I thought there seemed something wrong between us this afternoon.[?] Perhaps, however, you may think I have behaved nastily to you...Robert Louis Stevenson Bob StevensonletterManuscript: Letter
1700-1799I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several of them.Joseph Hunter Mark NobleA Genealogical History of the Present Royal FamiliPrint: Book
1900-1945I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excellent saleable stories. I have practically no fault t...Arnold Bennett Edward Knoblockstories [unidentified]Manuscript: Unknown


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