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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'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacLa Messe de l'AtheePrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and an [sic] painfully impressed — I might say depressed.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley, and the Rise and Progress of M...Print: Book
1900-1945'Did you ever read Turgenev's "Letters of a Sportsman?" If you never did, do so at once: they are the finest things that were ever written. I would rather have written "...Ford Madox Ford Ivan TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read-of course you have though-Defoe?s history of the Devil? What a capital thing it is. I bought it for a couple of shillings yesterday morning, and have b...Charles Dickens Daniel DefoeThe Political History of the Devil, as well Ancien...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o...Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Did you get the two Examiners I sent you? The last of them was forced into my hand by a news-vender, just as I was mounting the Coach at 7am, and what should I see in i...Thomas Carlyle Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Did you never, madam, wish for Angelica's Invisible Ring, in Ariosto's "Orlando"? - I remember when I first read of it, I laboured under a real uneasiness for a whole we...Samuel Richardson Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London Examiner? I never heard of Chas Buller before; but ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Did you read Beach-Thomas' account of bombing raids on a Field Ambulance in Daily Mail of 23rd. The Boche is a rotter! I'm afraid I have been rather too optimistic...John Lawton Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". ...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw from it? Pity that Sir W. had not the gift of deli...Thomas Carlyle Sir William HamiltonReview of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (...Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, ver...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington MacaulayDiary and Letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tris...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, consi...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi...Thomas Carlyle Charles Hughes TerotPoemsManuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
1900-1945'Didn't do much work as was reading "The Killer and the Slain", which I don't like much as it's very sordid and morbid.'Hilary Spalding Hugh WalpoleKiller and the Slain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ethel Alec-TweedieWomen the world over: a sketch both light and gay,...Print: Book
1900-1945'Didn't go out all day. May brought me from Library "Women the world over" and took back "Candles in the flame" and "Lighter side of school life["].'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Ian Hay (pseud.)The Lighter Side of School LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Mr Dilly Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Print: Book
1700-1799'DILLY. "Mrs. Glasse's "Cookery", which is the best, was written by Dr. Hill. Half the trade know this.' JOHNSON. "Well, Sir. This shews how much better the subject of co...Samuel Johnson Hannah GlassArt of Cookery Made Plain and Easy Print: Book


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