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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'At one time I knew entire pages of "Madame Bovary" by heart. But if "Madame Bovary" is a masterpiece "Salammbô" is close to a miracle. I well remember that when I was wr...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertSalammbôPrint: Book
1900-1945'At other times he would tell me about the Malay Archipelago and the Malays and show me pictures in A. R. Wallace's book about that part of the world. [...] He would rea...Joseph Conrad Alfred Russel WallaceThe Malay Archipelago The Land of the Orang-Utan a...Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith [various English poets][poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith Thomas SeckerLectures on CatechismPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading successive articles on such subjects as Parrots, Parthi...Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am deep in Les Misérables, which is wonderful.'Constance Wilde Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'At present I am reading Goethe’s conversations with Eckerman. they are nearly as good as Sam Johnson, though in an entirely different vein. You ought to read 'Wilhelm M...Arnold Bennett Johann Wolfgang GoetheConversations of Goethe with Eckerman and SoretPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point and idiom than I expected after the first Canto or two...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-righteousness. A very [italics] true [end italics] nature...Antonia White Harriet Martineau[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a...Thomas Carlyle August Friedrich Ferdinand von KotzebueUnknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Radlett over the week-end. Read some of Maurois' The Fall of France. I remember poor Maurois making his way to England and giving that last despairing broadcast. H...Vere Hodgson André MauroisThe Battle of FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'John Ruskin [unknown]Roma SotterneaPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll to his daughters: "Then one could look at life and af...Jack Lawson Karl Marx Print: Book


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