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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'By the by have you read my friend Mr Crag's [sic] "Hunting of Badlewe" published by Colburne. If you have not I wish you would and tell me punctually what you think of h...James Hogg J. H. CraigHunting of Badlewe, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Anne Romilly Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Mr Whishaw Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1850-1899'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart[verses]Unknown
1800-1849'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial seats in the kingdom, lately purchased by Sir -- Arkwr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mr Morritt[account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire]Unknown
1850-1899'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has however suffered much for a long time past. She was ve...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'By the paper I see there has been a great deal of crowding about St James's to see the laying in state of the Royal Duke...'Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'By the same post with the ordered copy of the E[nglish] R[eview]arrived the charming cahier des vers ["High Germany"] inscribed to us both. I have been turning over it...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford High GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Marcus Aurelius The Golden Book of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time my wife goes to bed at 9 or soon after, I feel too tired to do anything except sit by the fire and read a little poetry, then go to bed myself—without ...William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from ...Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only ...Emily De Quincey Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only ...Emily De Quincey John Greenleaf WhittierunknownUnknown
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Scotish Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'By the way the Mother gave him some of Miss Sorabji to read and he finds it as I did, very good – “splendid” he said in parts and is inclined to prophesy a great success...Rudyard Kipling Cornelia SorabjiunknownUnknown
1900-1945'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chronicle hadn?t read the book, & refrained from saying...Arnold Bennett [reviews]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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