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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'I read the letters [from Aunt Rachel] again and again as I strode furiously across the Parks, and the wind threw tears cold against my face. Often, reading her carefully...Ralph Glasser Rachel [letters from Glasser's aunt]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The extracts you sent me of "The Thompson" correspondence are charming. I am happy to see that "we" have lost none of our powers of writing; "[italics] dat [end italics]...William Gell [letters from Princess Caroline]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am de...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
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1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read them. It is her monument I am describing ?. 'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence Sterne[Letters from Yorick to Eliza?]Print: Book
1900-1945'Talking of the necessity for the censoring of letters ... I find quite a number of the men writing absolute lies about the danger they go through; and their extraordinar...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'We see some funny things when we are censoring our men's letters. One hero wrote home "We are fighting every day" ... One man was pathetically quaint: "Christmas Day we ...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Rarely do the men write of their life out here; too illiterate; most of the letters are confined to remarks on their own health; questions to the welfare of those at hom...Gerald Achilles Burgoyne [letters of men in the Royal Irish Rifles]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid bu...Sydney Smith Mary Berry (ed.)[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and t...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'Sydney Smith (ed.) Mary Berry[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]Print: Book
1900-1945'Letters of resignation were read from Miss Goadby and from Mr and Mrs A.L. Goadby'.Alfred Rawlings Goadby[letters of resignation from the Goadbys from the ...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'The resignation of Mr & Mrs Cass was read'Alfred Rawlings Cass[letters of resignation from XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'.Elizabeth Edminson Brown[letters of [?] J.S. Brown]Print: Book
1. Apologies for absence were received from Margaret and A. Bruce Dilks, Alice and Arnold Joselin, Sylvanus A. Reynolds, Kenneth F. Nicholson, Francis H. Knight. Howard Smith Émile Zola[letters on the Dreyus case]Print: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Heloise[Letters to Abelard]Print: Book
1900-1945'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, fear of life. They really cared for each other. She i...Antonia White George Sand[letters to and from Flaubert]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the ...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is madde...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even you, her most cherished friend, could wish the impr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to Ellen Nussey]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[letters to George Eliot]Manuscript: Letter


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