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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
 
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny.'Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'Mary Shelley Pliny[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Rousseau's letters.'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques Rousseau[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Rousseau's letters'Mary Shelley Jean Jacques Rousseau[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read some very delightful old books lately (for I now have just attained the wisdom to wish to make use of this ample library, and reject all borrowed or hired bo...Sarah Harriet Burney Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters writte...Charlotte Bury Galileo Galilei[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters writte...Charlotte Bury Raphael[letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Paul's Letters? Partial as I am to the author, I confess I was disappointed. I believe they are very just and well written, and profound; but they really a...Mrs [-] [Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be well-educated young lady who knew nothing about Mad...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way of expressing herself must have been different to co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (very clever) criticism on Thackeray, man and writings....Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are almost more beautiful than any others of Miss Bronte...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White David Herbert Lawrence[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817) "negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in unce...Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'.Antonia White John Keats[Letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: the book is on my table: I have the time. Why can't I ...Antonia White Peter Warlock[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic...Antonia White Katherine Mansfield[letters]Print: Book
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amintas [end italics]: as they were really very elegant; ...Laetitia van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters]Manuscript: Letter


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