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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
 
1850-1899November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The fo...Arnold Bennett La Nouvelle Revue FrancaisePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Rivière, I pass a fortnight before opening it. The fo...Arnold Bennett Marcel JouhandeauClodomir l'assassinPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be found with 'T.N.Y.C.' It is well-constructed; and the ...Arnold Bennett Francis HackettThat Nice Young CouplePrint: Book
1800-1849Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo...Thomas Carlyle George MoirPreface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil...Print: Book
1800-1849Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on the subject, he said [in letter of 27 January 1815] [...] ["]I will beg yo...Wiliam Gifford Lyallreview of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ...Octavia Hill Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1900-1945Of course the book I read most consistently throughout these years was the Bible, but its influence on me, though obviously great, was not directly literary. I never thou...Patricia Beer The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and several of the Al...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family ...Thompson FamilyJohann David WyssThe Swiss Family RobinsonPrint: Book
1850-1899On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".Mary Augusta Ward Texts in/on early SpanishPrint: Book
1800-1849On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such a...D'Arblay familyAlain Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25: 'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott: the gifted man condescending to tell ...Walter Scott Amelia OpieFather and DaughterPrint: Book
1900-1945On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".'Vera Brittain S. L. SolonArticle in the "News Chronicle"Print: Newspaper
1800-1849On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its n...Francis Place Francis PlaceAutobiographyManuscript: unpublished memoirs
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantReview of The Master of BallantraePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903 L A W' in pencil manuscript. In addition, a bookplate on inside front cover: 'Laurence A. Waldron.' with a c...Laurence A Waldron Henry Austin DobsonFanny BurneyPrint: Book
1850-1899On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining f...William Ewart Gladstone William WatsonPoemsPrint: Book
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1900-1945		On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole v...Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chambers's EncyclopediaPrint: Book


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