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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'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'St Simeon Stylites' et caetera.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred TennysonThe Lotus Eaters/St Simeon StylitesPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way who wrote the "Mirrors of Downing St"? Some of the things in it are very good.' Gertrude Bell Harold BegbieThe Mirrors of Downing Street: Some Political Refl...Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)......Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceJimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Ro...Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way, Harold and I both like Clifford Kitchin's murder book, and I shall recommend it on Thursday, so tell Leonard to notice if it affects sales.'Vita Sackville-West Clifford KitchinDeath of my AuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you have not, can you tell whether others like it? I wa...Sarah Harriet Burney James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'By the way, I am in the train of reading the "History of Clarissa", who affords a notable example that fear is not the effectual mode. Pray did you ever go through that ...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - but I can't'.Robert Louis Stevenson The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettJournalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Nathaniel Hawthorne"Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being ...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Henry W. Longfellow"Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being S...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Thomas De Quincey James T. Fields"On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent Engl...Print: Book
1900-1945'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of the atmosphere of married life than anybody has eve...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsMarriageManuscript: Codex, proofs
1850-1899'By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter BesantAll Sorts and Conditions of MenPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way, you should get that "Spirit of Man", Bridge's anthology, that everyone is talking about. Mrs K. has it from the library at present: it is one of the pretti...Clive Staples Lewis Robert BridgesThe Spirit of Man: an Anthology in English and Fre...Print: Book
1900-1945'By this time you will probably have finished reading "Villette". What do you think of the ending? I can just hear you saying "Cracked — absolutely!" It certainly is mo...Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontėVillettePrint: Book
1900-1945'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to me in quieter days, more potent than life, more perm...Vera Brittain The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Peasant War in GermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'.Ewan McColl Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the...Print: Book
1800-1849'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ...Joseph Barker George Gordon Byron Print: Book


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