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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
 
1800-1849'"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang...Austen familyMadame de GenlisAlphonsine, or Maternal AffectionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss James has lent me, and I have been reading Alphonsine - that is the two first volumes - and it has completely bewitched me - I was such an old Ass as to sit up last...Sarah Harriet Burney [Madame] de GenlisAlphonsine, ou la tendresse maternellePrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing lesson - read Alphonsine - shelley reads Don Q.[uixote] aloud.'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisAlphonsine; ou la tendresse maternellePrint: Book
1850-189919 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.' Lady Charlotte Schreiber ?Benjamin ?DisraeliAlroyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy].Robert Louis Stevenson Benjamin DisraeilAlroy: a RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842: 'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all this loitering with your tragedy? [...] Here it is ...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HorneAlsargisManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945P.S. I recommend to you 'Zarathustra'. It is not a book for the weak or the sentimental but a great book. I have been fortifying myself with it in moments of weakne...Freya Stark Friedrich NietzscheAlso sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Kei...Print: Book
1850-1899'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.Alfred and Emily TennysonCharles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899'a strange book, full of ability, chartism, some blasphemy and infidelity, but on the whole a useful book for the upper classes to read — not the lower'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. Read the Zaire and the Alzire of Voltaire'.Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]AlzirePrint: Book
1600-1699'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impr...Robert Boyle Garci Rodriguez de MontalvoAmadis de GaulePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'work and read Junius read Amadis'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley Robert SoutheyAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'The old Lady Strathmore has some curious books. I hope to get from her library the Amadigi of Tassos father...Robert Southey Bernando TassoAmadis of GaulPrint: Book
1900-1945 I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often rea...Arnold Bennett Valery LarbaudAmants, heureux amantsPrint: Book
1900-1945 I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is, in my opinion, a very fine book, highly distinguish...Arnold Bennett Valery LarbaudAmants, heureux amantsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding James AgateAmazing Theatre, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book


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