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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'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.' Arnold Bennett A. E. HousmanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 13 February 1915: 'After luncheon [...] I went to a concert at the Queen's Hall [...] I was annoyed by a young man & woman who took advantage of the music to p...'young man and woman'A. E. HousmanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 8th Nov. 1943 A. Bruce Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read. Frank Knight immediately proved w...		Kenneth F. Nicholson A. E. HousemanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian RomancePrint: Book
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 Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian Romance [and other novels]Print: Book
1800-1849"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; ...Maria Edgeworth Elizabeth InchbaldA Simple StoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at a...Henry James Howard SturgisA Sketch from MemoryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m...Robert Peel 'a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash' A Sketch of Irish HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Small Boy and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really). In order to wr...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Small Boy in the SixtiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In parenthesis, I hope you'll like Mrs Sara Jeannette [Duncan]. I thought her charming and she was so kind to us [in Calcutta]. She longs to know you. Read "A Voyage of ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Social departure: How Orthodocia and I went roun...Print: Book
1900-1945'I'm reading "A Son at the Front" in book form. The wife reads serials in magazines which I don't.'Rudyard Kipling Edith WhartonA Son at the FrontPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est guarison De mes maux; J’aime mieux perdre les deux fenest...Robert Louis Stevenson Olivier BasselinA Son NezPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Real Beauty' 'The Charms which [erased] blooming beauty shares/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxThomas FitzgeraldA Song [The Charms Which Blooming Beauty Shows]Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text...John Drummond Erskine Stephen WestonA specimen of the conformity of the European langu...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Peter BroughamA Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Co...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel ParrA spital sermon preached at Christ ChurchPrint: Book
1850-1899'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next time you come to London. These sketches are obvious...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things that were ever written. I would rather have written "...Ford Madox Ford Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horne and Mary GilliesA Story Book of Country ScenesPrint: Book


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