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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'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .'Arnold Bennett Theodore Dreiser Print: Book
1900-1945'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe GeniusPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its dreadful slovenliness in details of phrase, is an e...Arnold Bennett Theodore DreiserThe FinancierPrint: Book
1800-1849' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came ...Anne Lister Theodore HookSayings and DoingsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria E...John Wilson Croker Theodore HookGilbert GurneyPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Snowdon': '"...and so he went on expatiating upon his honour and his feelings, his conviction ...Theodore HookLove and PridePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday 21 February 1828: 'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings, which shows great knowledge of life in a certain s...Walter Scott Theodore HookSayings and Doings (third series)Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a paragraph from 'T. Hooke, Jack Bragg', beginning, 'The certain Nobodies, who happen to have fine h...Theodore HookeJack BraggPrint: Book
1850-1899'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wil...Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-DuntonpoemsUnknown
1900-1945'One other item of news I must not forget to tell you. Aylwin came. I read it (in the trenches, of all incongruous places) and it conquered me. I've nothing at all ...Herbert Edward Read Theodore Watts-DuntonAylwinPrint: Book
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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 Eutrapel...Gabriel Harvey Theodore ZwingerTheatrumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Theodore Francis Powys[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I will confess at once that I have read the book ["The Reconnaissance"] once only, and that of course is not enough;[...].The subject in itself is certainly a very diffi...Joseph Conrad Theodore James Gordon GardinerThe ReconnaissancePrint: Book
1900-1945'My dear Miss Sorabji My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot refrain from sending you a few lines of sincere sympat...Sybill Roffes Theodore Leighton Pennell Print: Book
1850-1899'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theodore William Alois BuckleyunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838: 'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics] to Miss Garrow without thanking her for allowing m...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowpoems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young In...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839: 'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ballads [...] I have seen no writing of her's exce...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowstanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth LandonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon esti...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrow'The Doom of Cheynholme'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841: 'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please any person in the world take the Landor & Kenyon es...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia GarrowpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read Theodosia Garrow's narrative poem 'The Doom of Cheynholme' in The Keepsake For ...Elizabeth Barrett Theodosia Garrowpoem on death of Letitia Elizabeth LandonManuscript: Unknown


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