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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
 
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further comments including: 'Bunny's books are so good because the...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1900-1945'For weeks I've had a bad wrist or I would have thanked you before for the "[A] M[an] [in] the Z[oo]". D[avid] may be congratulated in pulling off this piece with great t...Joseph Conrad David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think appeared originally in Punch'John Buckley Castieau Douglas JerroldA man made of moneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nevertheless I've read the book ["A Man of Devon"] twice'. Hence follows a page of constructive criticism. Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA Man of DevonPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf A Manual of EthicsPrint: Book
1600-1699"Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..."Henry Wotton John MiltonA Mask Presented at Ludlow CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] ...Elizabeth Barrett unknownA Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of NorwichPrint: Book
1800-1849"Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two more of unrivalled intimate friends of the whole publ...Harriet Martineau James Edward Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'Verena Vera Pennefather James Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 24 November 1882:

'I have lately been much interested in read...		Sidney Biddell William Michael RossettiA Memoir of ShelleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'A Mental Struggle'Sarah Good Margaret HungerfordA Mental StrugglePrint: Book
1900-1945'Walked Clausin with Herr Byng. Read "A Midsummer Day's Dream". Wire from Mrs Henderson.'Verena Vera Pennefather H. B. Marriott WatsonA Midsummer Day's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence': This is Shakspeare's [sic] manly se...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hungry lions roar, / And the wolf beholds the moon'. ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath such force and blessed power": "Beautiful and easy bey...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes Fletcher might perhaps have written. The fairy scene...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 22 June 1802, 'I read the Midsummer Night's Dream, and began As You Like It.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent, and was very gracious, and being draped (for an ev...Frances Anne Kemble William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamUnknown


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