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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
 
1850-1899'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthi...Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaig...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi signori et persone private" (1571)] record Eutrape...Gabriel Harvey Solomon The Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Ma...Hugh Walpole Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book
1900-1945'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".'Vera Brittain Somerset MaughamA Christmas HolidayPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Somerset MaughamThe Summing-UpPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course the whole thing, in his subtle way, is quite itching w...Peter Pears Somerset MaughanOf Human BondagePrint: 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
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sophia BaddeleyMemoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley Print: Book
1700-1799'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you traverse the happy terrace...'Samuel Richardson Sophia Westcomb[letter]Manuscript: Letter, Unknown
1800-1849[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va touche...Anne Lister Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle Sophie CottinMathildePrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Sophie CottinElisabeth, ou les exiles de SiberiePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mme Garschine's was rather sad and gave me the blues a bit'.Robert Louis Stevenson Sophie GarschineletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Read Livy - Claire d'Albe - Gilblas - walk in the gardens - S reads Livy'Mary Shelley Sophie Ristaud CottinClaire d'AlbePrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ...Frances Power Cobbe Sophocles  Print: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield Sophocles Oedipus at ColonusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles AjaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot (pseud) Sophocles Oedipus RexPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842: 'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire -- & have read him as well as Aeschylus & Sophocles ...Elizabeth Barrett Sophocles playsPrint: Book


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