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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'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how completely I remembered it.'Harriet Martineau William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1850-1899 'As soon as I have done, I shall begin my ?Pastoral Drama? business; I have so many nice things to say about "Midsummer Night?s Dream"[?]'Robert Louis Stevenson William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's Dream.Print: Book
1900-1945'Reported sick again as the swelling on my leg has not gone down. There is not a sound of a gun to be heard now ... We are now having a thunderstorm, the first rain for f...Stuart Chapman Guy BoothbyA Millionaire's Love StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A Mind That Found Itself"]. . . . By the way, have you r...Arnold Bennett Clifford BeerA Mind That Found ItselfPrint: Book
1850-1899'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) whose 3 books I have consistently belauded wants to ...Arnold Bennett George PastonA Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study ...Print: Book
1850-1899'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'i...Arthur Symons William Dean HowellsA Modern InstancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just finished reading your last book..'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean HowellsA Modern InstancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.' Arnold Bennett George MooreA Modern LoverPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] to...Henry James H. G. WellsA Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exemplary year for me, from my contrarily carrying-out all...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsA Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t, I don?t know that I can. The latter half of it is...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsA Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'All I can say is that I am quite enthusiastic about the work ["A Modern Utopia"]. From the first line of the preface to the closing sentence I feel in touch with a more...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells A Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I received the volume ["A Motley"] the day before yesterday and laid it aside till this afternoon.' Hence follow one and a half pages of almost unqualified praise for t...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyA MotleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your new book: I see that there are many things that I have read before, and shall be glad to read again in book form. Last evening I read your poi...William Henry Hudson John GalsworthyA MotleyPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady who was undressed said to the man 'Bite me' and also ...Harry Dorrell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" ...Susan Mitchell George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book


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