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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
 
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Theodule RibotLes Maladies de la VolontePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing Theodule-Armand RibotHérédité: étude psychologique Print: Book
1850-1899'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Sc...Arthur Symons Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have had a day of open air; only a little modified by Le Capitaine Fracasse before the dining room fire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theophile GautierLe Capitaine FracassePrint: Book
1850-1899'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't ...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierEmaux et CaméesPrint: Book
1850-1899'From that time for ten years Conrad followed the sea. The deep sea, reading all sorts of books. Once an officer with quarters of his own he resumed his reading of French...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Theophilus CibberLives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may as well make a note of it. Trying to anchor my mind ...Virginia Woolf Theophrastus 'Characters'Print: Book
1850-1899'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that...Harriet Martineau Theresa LewisExtracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Mis...Print: Book
1800-1849'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some changes in punctuation]Carey/Maingay groupThomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man daily is greatly conducive to holiness.'Oscar Wilde Thomas ? KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'.Rose Macaulay Thomas a KempisOn The Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran...William Gifford Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a KempisImitation of Christ, The (?)Print: Book
1700-1799'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of Jesus ChristPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to satisfy himself whether his mental faculties were impair...Samuel Johnson Thomas a KempisImitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my notes, but that when I mentioned that I had seen in the ...James Boswell Thomas a KempisImitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with Swinburne (a copy of)"; in another, he mentioned "Th...Oscar Wilde Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and a few odd numbers of magazines.'William Gifford Thomas a KempisImitatio ChristiPrint: Book


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