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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'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me ...Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible book which I recommend by the way to the Hogarth Press...Harold Nicolson unknown[work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Do you object to my alluding to your delightful little account of your passage over the Splugen in /34 & mentioning your name?' [letter to Abraham Hayward. Mary is pr...Mary Shelley Abraham Hayward[account of Euroipean travels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns us again.'Henry William Williamson Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford[article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispa...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Do you read H. G. Wells's vaticinations which are somewhat faliderol [sic] in the "Daily Mail"? Well there' some—a good deal of truth in them,and the reading class...William Henry Hudson H. G. Wells[articles in the Daily Mail]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Do you read Ruskin at all? I am sure you don't. Well I am reading a book of his at present called "A joy for ever", which is charming, though I am not sure you would c...Clive Staples Lewis John RuskinA Joy for Ever: (and Its Price in the Market): Bei...Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the foremost European authorities. This man does not in ...Arnold Bennett Spencer WilkinsonSunday Times articlesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Do you remember the knocking in Macbeth? ...The porter is a man I have a great respect for. He had a great command of language. All that he says, curiously enough, my mo...Mrs Stevenson William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you take Chambers's Journal? The opening article I like very much, on that beautiful line from Keats, 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'; another of the leading ...Eliza Ellis John KeatsEndymionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Do you take Chambers's Journal? The opening article I like very much, on that beautiful line from Keats, 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'; another of the leading ...Eliza Ellis [Anon] [Anon]'Female Education. The Positive-the Possible'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since "The Red Badge [of ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Price of the HarnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is a masterly thing) is published by Long (!) who gave ...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisBomb, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; ...Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and othersJames BeattieEssay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has always had an astonishing Power of doing such Things. [...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'.Charles Burney James HarrisPhilosophical ArrangementsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Dr Collier John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon the purest Tory principles - it is very observable a...Hester Lynch Thrale John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Hester Lynch Thrale James Grainger'Solitude: An Ode'Print: Book


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