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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
 
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912: 'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can see that you might write something astonishingly goo...Leonard Woolf Virginia Stephenfiction MSSManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf Hurrell FroudeRemainsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf John Henry NewmanApologia pro vita suaPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'Giles Lytton Strachey Lytton StracheyLife of Cardinal ManningManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy journey. Train from Paris packed & if I had not started ...Leonard Woolf report of death of Samuel GarrettPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928: 'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell, nephew] came and painted the gramophone and after ...Leonard Woolf Dorothy OsborneThe Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William TemplePrint: Book
1800-1849Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to l...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageUnknown
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1800-1849		Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further remarks see page 11th.Ellen Weeton Stephanie de Genlis BrulartLessons of a Governess to Her PupilsPrint: Book
1800-1849Let us talk of Eugenie and Mathilde. It saddened but did not make me cry. I foresaw it would end like a Turk, nay I am not sure I did not peep, for I cannot bear to be gr...Sarah Harriet Burney Marie-Emilie, Comtesse de Flahaut AdelaideEugenie et MathildePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (s...John Ruskin Sir Walter Scott Print: Book
1900-1945Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939: 'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Toronto I mentioned to you ? "Young Apollo" (after Keat...Benjamin Britten John KeatsHyperionPrint: Book
1900-1945Letter 255 April 7th 1940 'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen of them (in Italian ? pretty brave, but there are pe...Benjamin Britten Michelangelo Buonarrotti[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Letter 271 4 July 1940 'Please forgive me not having written eight and a half days ago or more to thank you for your lovely birthday present. The thin mints went of cou...Peter Pears Somerset Maughan[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a night of respite yesterday ? let?s hope you have lots ...Benjamin Britten [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Letter 433. December 1st, 1831: "I both Simpson’s & Hutchinson’s editions of Zenophon, the double tau takes the place of the double sigma, — and sun of ksun."Elizabeth Barrett Browning Xenophon[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 433. December 1st, 1831: "You know my Isocrates is a bad edition. In it, there is sometimes a double tau & sometimes a double sigma quite ad libitum. For insta...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Isocrates[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 443. March, 29, 1832: "Nonnus appears to have few instances of hiatus. I have observed— αυτοθι εμπεδα...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Nonnus of Panopolis[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning TheocritusIdyllsPrint: Book


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