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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
1900-1945		'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romantic nature of the district that I had blindly inhabited...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1800-1849'which has been rather a substantial morsel, upwards of 600 … pages, it interested me on the whole, as all matters do bearing on our colonial progress'.G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James BackhouseA Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies Print: Book
1800-1849'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there seems to have been at first setting out. I cannot a...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir John MooreA Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative History of Persia" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone Henry StracheyA narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the a...Print: Book
1850-1899'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a f...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Nest of GentlefolksPrint: Book
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: "Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perse...Print: Book
1700-1799'[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next thing was to get the Captain to ly to, as it was very ...Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica PacketThomas SalmonA New Geographical and Historical Grammar Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of Alchymy (1674) by Michał Sędziwój (Sendi...Edward Pordage Michał SędziwójA New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain o...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hermann BoerhaaveA New Method of ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, ?12 April 1844: 'I have just finished the second volume [of A New Spirit of the Age], dear Miss Barrett, & my fingers itch to t...Thomas Westwood Richard Hengist HorneA New Spirit of the AgePrint: Book
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the Age] all marked through. He has marked with great...Leigh Hunt Richard Hengist HorneA New Spirit of the AgePrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Jacob BryantA New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]A New Version of the Psalms of DavidPrint: Book
1700-1799'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that worthy author Dumont, who has written with equal ign...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean DumontA New Voyage to the LevantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore DunsanyA Night in the SunPrint: Book
1850-1899'Also, please tell Miss Morris that the novel The Nihilist Princess is a sham, and empty of all dramatic matter. She had been afraid of it.'Oscar Wilde Louise Mignerot GagneurA Nihilist PrincessPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beating up now & again to poetry; but I am as usual appal...Virginia Woolf Rosamund LehmannA Note in MusicPrint: Book
1850-1899'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to whi...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Note on FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals"...Elizabeth Carter a number of novelistsPrint: Book


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