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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Hester Lynch PiozziAnecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life whi...Benjamin Newton Richard WatsonAnecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, whic...Hester Lynch Piozzi James Andrew PettitAnecdotes, &c Ancient and ModernPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of England", which promises well and is worth reading; an...Elizabeth Pepys Edward ChamberlayneAngliae Notitia; or The present state of England: ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'Thomas Green William FrendAnimadversions on the elements of Christian theolo...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have almost got him by heart. I had read his "Animali Parla...George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista CastiAnimali ParlantePrint: Book
1850-1899'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsAnimi FiguraManuscript: Proof copy
1900-1945'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ...Eva Slawson Herbert George WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale, to Arnold B. with love from his nephew H.G.": he h...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned turtle and nose dived. Pilot unhurt. Am doing a fair ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Herbert George WellsAnn VeronicaPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Norman CollinsAnnaPrint: Book
1900-1945I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it is more marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Les F...Arnold Bennett Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every scene in Anna Karenina is branded on me, though I've...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after reading Anna Karenina, to dine at a pot-house with Rose M...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Remenber me faithfully to your wife whose translation of "Karenina" is splendid. Of the thing itself I think but little, so that her merit shines with the greater lustre...Joseph Conrad Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So many groups of distinct, yet intertwining lives, all so...Antonia White Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishme...Leonard Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...R. B. Graham Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...R. B. Graham Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in...George Sturt Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book


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