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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
 
1700-1799'[Mrs Thrale gives an epitaph translated from French by Bennet Langton, and her own translation] 'I remember Johnson preferred mine at the Time it was fresh among us'.Samuel Johnson [French epitaph translated by Mrs Thrale and Benne...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I could do them successfully' [she gives an example of ...Hester Lynch Thrale [French epitaphs]Unknown
1800-1849Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn withou...Anne Lutton [French Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar ...Charles Manby Smith William Cobbett[French Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][French Grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799''He spoke often in praise of French literature. "The French are excellent in this, (he would say,) they have a book on every subject".'Samuel Johnson [French literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had not a Notion it was worth while'.Hester Lynch Thrale [French Memoirs]Print: Book
1700-1799William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 14 March 1818: 'If you continue to read the Kendal Chronicle you must be greatly concerned to see that the Liberty of the Press shoul...William Wordsworth [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.'Arnold Bennett [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grossest insolence and horrifies one. We hear that Jourdain...Elizabeth Wynne and others [n/a][French newspapers]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1900-1945'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and keeps me more than abreast of current thought ? for E...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to comp...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent all the morning in my office in the barn at Battalion H.Q. writing up my official War Diary, writing a card home, reading the French Paper and doing some strengt...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Several French soldiers were reading newspapers. I asked one to get me one. He gave me his and when I offered him a "sou", there was a regular chorus from all his pals o...Thomas Stafford Wollocombe [French newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen unknown[French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at ... [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London p...Samuel Johnson [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'finally concluding in reading a French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book


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