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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
 
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Scipione MaffeiLa MeropePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Muratori on the Confraternita'.George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Sean O'CaseyJuno and the PaycockPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Selina Hastings, Countess of HuntingdonA Select Collection of HymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Seneca  Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Seneca TragediesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Dorothy, Lady Bradshaigh to Samuel Richardson, 29 October 1749:] 'O Sir! how I regret your want of time! As I lately read the twentieth chapter of Seneca's Morals, I ...Dorothy Lady Bradshaigh Seneca Morals ('twentieth chapter')Print: Book
1900-1945‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading o...William Henry Hudson Sergei AksakoffYears of ChildhoodPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I have read Aeschylus twice; Sophocles twice; Euripide...Thomas Babington Macaulay Sextus PropertiusunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence ...Henry Marriage Wallis Shane LeslieEnd of a Chapter, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter Sharon TurnerSacred history of the creationPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too many to read your paper. I find it useful, suggestiv...Virginia Woolf Shena, Lady Simonpaper on women and warUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836: 'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wreckers" [sic]. It is full of passion and pathos, --...Elizabeth Barrett Sheridan KnowlesThe Wrecker's DaughterPrint: Book
1850-1899'All right, I'll see what I can do....Does the "sans extract" mean that I [italics] simply God-damn-mustn't [end italics] put in an extract. Please explain...'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinThe Shadow of Death
1850-1899'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much mo...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of ...Unknown
1850-1899'I say Colvin, your Titian is no end, and has pleased my mother as much as me: no end, also, is your description of that incarnate devil Maclise one of the wickedest inca...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin[Notices on Titian and Daniel Maclise]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinFrederick Walker. In Memoriam.Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
1900-1945'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an opinion.' Hence follows a page of appreciative comm...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinConcentration in English PoetryPrint: Pamphlet


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