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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'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, think...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 17 August 1848:

'I will not return Charles Lamb [i.e. a book], for in truth he is very welcome. I saw a review with extract...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[review of work by/relating to Charles Lamb]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 June 1849:

'I have always forgotten to acknowledge the receipt of the parcel [of books, regularly sent ...		Emily Brontë unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweeting [in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley], although ...James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curatesunknown unknown[Patristic writings]Print: Book
1800-1849James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley and James William Smithunknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wynd...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[article on Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and works...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wynd...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Haworth working man's written response to reading...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazet...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Books on Camisards]Unknown
1900-1945'The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place, his bed had to be hospitable to a heap of books, a...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning I stayed in and read some most illuminating articles on Sufyism. There's a lot to know, but I guess I'll know some of it before I've done.'Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Serial / periodical, probably a periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in The Scotsman]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I find upon looking up that Louis is in tears over Back from the Dead.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknownBack from the DeadPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and re...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[article in Edinburgh Courant]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I could read well when very young (as is before hinted) spending much time with my afflicted father, I read much to him; and the experiences and sufferings of faithful m...Henry Payton unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown


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