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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 ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguish...Arnold Bennett Valery LarbaudAmants, heureux amantsPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is dificult to express the joy I felt at the arrival of the "Complete Works of M. Barnabooth".[...].The first reading of the "Journal Intime" makes an unforgettable i...Joseph Conrad Valéry-Nicolas LarbaudA.O.BarnaboothPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering me a bit [discusses text further, drawing comparisons...Edward Morgan Forster Van Wyck BrooksThe Ordeal of Mark TwainPrint: Book
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bellautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there...William Gladstone various A Handbook for Travellers on the ContinentPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the same night: the one a letter of fifteen pages from M...Jane Baillie Welsh Various AutographsManuscript: Autographs
1700-1799'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, when done, will amuse me by reading over again, a ver...Samuel Richardson various authors correspondence and other papersManuscript: Letter, letters and papers
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Varro unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'Benjamin Newton Vasily GolovninNarrative of my captivity in JapanPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Vaughan WilkinsBeing Met TogetherPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori...Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr.Vegetius De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris)Print: Book
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1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Vegetius unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'M reads the Sorcerer & Shelley writes his Romance.'Mary Godwin Veit WeberDie Teufelsbeschworung / The SorcererPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Veit WeberThe Sorcerer: A Tale from the GermanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Veit WeberThe Sorcerer: A Tale from the GermanPrint: Book
1900-1945Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Youth. Not that I much like her. A stringy metallic mind...Virginia Woolf Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'The note announced, a little defiantly, that the writer had read, "with the utmost pleasure," my novel "The Dark Tide", and asked me in return to accept "the enclosed" -...Vera BrittainThe Dark TidePrint: Book
1900-1945'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entirely changed his opinion of me.'St. John Ervine Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I think, is a very great, a very moving book...powerful, s...George Catlin Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of pleasure from reading it aloud to each other. How we l...John Fossett Vere HodgsonMS diaryManuscript: Sheet


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