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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
 
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell Wilhelm MeinholdAmber Witch, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading a short 'Etude' of Scherer on Goethe, in which I so heartily agree that I enjoy it.'Emma Darwin Wilhelm Scherer Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything down to food urge or sex urge.'Thomas Kitching Wilhelm StekelPeculiarities of BehaviourPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilhelm Gottlieb TennemannGeschichte der PhilosophiePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie FamiliePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlLand Und VolkPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie Burgerliche GesellschaftPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilhelm Martin Leberecht De WetteTheodorPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Wilhelmina von HillernGeier-WallyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of the Irish tales of Carlton [sic]? Some [italics]extr...Richard Hengist Horne Wiliam Carleton'tales' (extracts)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wiliam GiffordIntroduction to The Plays of Philip MassingerPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Wiliam RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Wiliam Wordsworth'The Solitary Reaper'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met'John Masefield Wiliam Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the subject fruitful, and I suspect that much of the publi...Henry James Wiliam Dean HowellsThe Undiscovered CountryPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the pleasure of letting you know ... what satisfaction t...Henry James Wiliam Dean HowellsDr. Breen's PracticePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Prescott all morning with intervals of talking to the two American men, the Engineer and the Captain.' Gertrude Bell Wiliam Hickling PrescottunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have never perused his writings but with blended feelings of...Charlotte Bronte Wililam Makepeace Thackeray Print: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book


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