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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
 
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownArticle on the JesuitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938: 'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summed up the situation [i.e. the Munich Crisis] in a ver...John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynesarticle on the Munich CrisisUnknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal, 11 January 1868: 'A. read the article on the Talmud by Deutsch.'Alfred Tennyson Deutscharticle on the TalmudPrint: Unknown
1800-1849The Bishop of Exeter to John Wilson Croker, 13 April 1849: 'I was not satisfied with one reading of your article. 'The repetition has more than doubled my gratifica...Bishop of Exeter John Wilson Crokerarticle on Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of ...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been ...Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevensonarticle on Victor HugoPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediately read the Zola in it [sic] [...] because I promised...Henry James unknownarticle on ZolaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in which it is said that there are people who have disco...George Gordon Lord Byron article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinbu...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'This morning [Reginald Perceval] Gibbon's correspondence [on the aftermath of the battle of Caporetto] in the "D[aily]C[hronicle]" was very reserved.'Joseph Conrad Reginald Perceval Gibbonarticle published in "Daily Chronicle"Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett (in hand of an amanuensis, Boyd being blind), letter postmarked 13 April 1843: 'It runs in my head, that several years ago, per...Hugh Stuart Boyd article regarding Ossian controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle JeffreyArticle XPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of "Anna". He says it is the best novel of th...Arnold Bennett W.L. Aldenarticle/review of "Anna of the Five Towns"Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]American[end italics] papers of his in "Harper", of an in...Henry James Arnold BennettarticlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862): 'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazine," upon the Principle of Utility, having waited unt...George Grote John Stuart Millarticles 'upon the Principles of Utility'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'When I was with George Dyer one morning last week Mary Hayes & Miss Christall entered, & the ceremony of introduction fol...Robert Southey Mary Haysarticles in the Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857: 'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries;" which is an agreeable collection of matters to ...George Grote G. C. Lewisarticles on ancient historyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day, when in talking about education, I said we had yet ...anon Harriet Martineauarticles on Household EducationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Margaret Wooler, on the Bronte sisters' investment plans, 23 April 1845:] 'There is nothing so uncertain as rail-roads; the price of shares vari...Emily Bronte articles on railways and railway stockPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I ...Henry James Henry James Srarticles on SwedenborgPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this was enough,putting all predisposition out of the quest...Harriet Martineau Dr CarpenterArticles: Mental and Moral Philosophy & Systemic E...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.' J.B. Pinker Arnold BennettArtist and the Public, TheUnknown


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