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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
1900-1945		Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he said of Cassell's Library "What anAladdin's cave it...Sir John Hammerton Thomas De Quincey[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hole in it, and the wind is blowing through me, and I'm...Virginia Woolf Thomas de QuinceyImpassioned ProsePrint: Book
1800-1849'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas De QuinceyReview of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Thomas de Quincey Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delight in an exquisite paper by the Opium-eater, which m...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas De Quincey'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Conf...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas de QuinceyMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Edinr Review is out some time ago; and the 'State of German Literature' has been received with considerable surprise and approbation by the Universe. Thus for insta...Thomas Carlyle Thomas de QuinceyReview of 'State of German Literature'Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Katherine Evans Thomas de QuinceyJoan of ArcPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a whole, for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hate these things of de Q-s in Maga'James Hogg Thomas De Quincy[articles in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life from Thomas Deloney, The Gentle Craft (Pt. II).Edward Morgan Forster Thomas DeloneyThe Gentle Craft part IIPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He...Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He...Phyllis Browne Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' I was now turned over [to another t...Robert Anderson Thomas DycheThe Spelling DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am very charmed, my dear Mr Edwards, with your sweet Story of a Second Pamela. Had I drawn mine from the very Life, I should have made a much more perfect Piece of my ...Samuel Richardson Thomas Edwards[letter relating story of a real life 'Pamela']Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:] 'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antagonist, which I had read before I left London, but for...Anne Donnellan Thomas EdwardsCanons of CriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also been swallowing autobiographies - Gifford's, Thomas Elw...John Mitchel Thomas Elwood[autobiography]Print: Book


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