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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 may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyHospital SonnetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyChildren: Private WardPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My poet writes good stuff; it is slack still and unequal, but I think some of it capital.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyunknownUnknown
1850-1899'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrofula you know − but [italics]bougrement[end ita...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'My dear Henley, Sketches III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan. IV As a whole. VII Both quatrains. VIII line 2. Extemporising a becoming gloom. I...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and PortraitsPrint: Probably proof.
1850-1899'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyNotes on the FirthManuscript: Sheet, Unknown
1850-1899'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits.Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy.
1850-1899'Herewith you receive the rest of Henley’s hospital work. He was much pleased by what you said of him, and asked me to forward these to you for your opinion; the pencil m...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[second series of] Hospital Poems Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I like your "Byron" well ...'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyAthenaeum, 'The Poetry of Byron'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyCornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I had already spotted your Dickens; very pleasant and true.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henleyreview of Vol 3 Letters of Charles Dickens in Athe...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Mag has come; the only thing I liked was your Japanese.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A Note on Japanese Art' in Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Omadhaun" was very funny by the Lord; I saw Constable who said both Payn and Kegan Paul had very highly lauded you.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Omadhaun at the Queen's'. Print: Serial / periodical, Account of an Irish melodrama by H.P. Grattan.
1850-1899'My dear Henley, I have just read your Crnhll with genuine delight and admiration.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'The Early Life of J-F Miller', in 'Cornhill Magaz...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demanded by Hueffer for the New Tarterly [sic]. It’s a...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley  Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I liked your John Brown.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyReview in Academy (11 March 1882)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I liked "Veuillot" horrid; it was jolly and sympathetic and I think true.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'A French Journalist'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You will already have seen my word on Japanese Art. I read it a little differently, but your view of their fidelity to natural impressions is true, as far as it goes.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[article about Japanese art]Print: proof
1850-1899'Your "Dumas" I think exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley'Dumas'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full o...Emma Darwin William Ewart GladstoneEngland's MissionPrint: Serial / periodical



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