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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
 
1600-1699'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Madeleine de ScuderiArtamene, ou Le grand CyrusPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read [a] piece of "Grand Cyrus" in English by her'Samuel Pepys Madeleine de ScuderiArtamene, ou Le grand CyrusPrint: Book
1600-1699'I know you will pitty Poore Amestris strangly when you have read her Stoory[.] i'le swear I cryed for her when I read it first though shee were an imaginary person, and ...Dorothy Osborne Madeleine de ScuderyArtamene; ou, Le Grand CyrusPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John SterlingArthur ConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among other foreign literature; and had also dipped into M...Alfred Tennyson John SterlingArthur ConingsbyPrint: Book
1700-1799'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our former neighbours in East Kent, pointed at in Mr E Br...John Marsh Sir Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-AlbaniPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w...Jane Austen Samuel Egerton BrydgesArthur Fitz-Albini: a NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'Mary Shelley Charles Brockden BrownArthur MervynPrint: Book
1900-1945'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimat...May Sinclair unknownarticlePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's in genial rejoinder to my article in the same periodi...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 'tribute' in the September Harper, but I have just loo...Henry James William Dean HowellsarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William JamesarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feels about one's potboilers; but that doesn't prevent m...Henry James W. Morton FullertonarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'.Lord Durham Harriet MartineauarticleUnknown
1900-1945'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dictators here.' anon [A Labour MP]articlePrint: Unknown
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the adverti...George Grote BainarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...George Gordon Lord Byron Erasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...Lord and Lady ByronErasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think it seems prettily enough argued."Henry James Grant Allenarticle (?in response to work by William James)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose they've got plenty of money. And income Tax- I was read... unknownarticle about Oswald MosleyPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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