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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
 
1900-1945'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised ...Antonia White Hoare[article on Rimbaud]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], ...Harriet Martineau unknown[Article on St. Domingo]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'Henry William Williamson Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford[article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispa...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that Miscellany, that early June 1827, he was at Buxton, w...John Cole Dovaston[article on Thomas Bewick]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'Ford Madox Ford [unknown][article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibi...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction what Baretti had told him; that, meeting, in the cou...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Mr Grove[articled in 'The Spectator']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and pleased with both. I had forgot to mention to you that I w...James Hogg [articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in ...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Formosan Opinions therefore as corroborative of some H...Hester Lynch Thrale George Psalmanazar[articles contributed to the 'Universal History']Print: Book
1800-1849'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'James Hogg Thomas De Quincy[articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson Professor Seccombe[articles in the "Bookman"]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have been reading Wallace in "the Academy" ... in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points among rival claimants.....Erasmus Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace[articles in the 'Academy']
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton[articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and a...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the reading class...William Henry Hudson H. G. Wells[articles in the Daily Mail]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) various[articles in the National]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘...the Quarterly [Review], under [John Gibson] Lockhart’s management, is very different from what it was under [William] Gifford, whose benevolence...certainly did not...Hartley Coleridge John Taylor Coleridge[articles in The Quarterly Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insis...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][articles on Pacific politics]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?I have read the several articles by Major Pryse Gordon, which I herewith return. Although they would possess considerable interest for military or naval gentlemen, I fea...Charles Dickens Major Pryse Lockhart Gordon[articles]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[article]Unknown
1850-1899'Scribbled away for some hours at the Article I was writing. Altered the whole of the Introduction & then let Polly read the Paper. She approved & I felt a little excited...Polly Castieau John Buckley Castieau[article]Manuscript: Sheet



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