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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
 
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930: 'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I cannot stop at twice & go on rereading until something fr...Leonard Woolf T. S. EliotAsh WednesdayPrint: Book
1900-1945'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . I have read through the novel, and had it altered to...Arnold Bennett Agnes FarleyAshdodManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'Tues. Parcel from Pemb. ... Read The Ashes of Vengeance by Sommerville.'William Thomas H. B. SomervilleAshes of Vengeance: A Romance of Old FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellan...Maria Edgeworth Sir William JonesAsiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from vario...Print: Book
1900-1945'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallAsiatic Studies: Religious and SocialPrint: Book
1900-1945'[After lunch] I shall come back and begin an article I am to write about the technique of the novel for Canby - suggested by a book of E.M. Forster's, which is pretty ba...Ford Madox Ford Edward Morgan ForsterAspects of the NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a fortnight's absence, and, on my return a week ago, f...Henry James Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of LovelaceAstartePrint: Book
1900-1945'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case against Byron and Mrs. Leigh in the form of a book cal...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Ralph MilbankeAstarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord ByronManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [italics]very[end italics] well written - account of s...Sydney Smith Washington IrvingAstoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think astrology is the most reliable way of telling the future. Astrologers are so often right. I read him and study him regularly, and I find it's a great help.......... Lindoeastrology books / articlesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1600-1699"When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked...Isaac Newton John Flamsteedastronomical calculations (lunar positions)Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of ...Hester Lynch Thrale William WhistonAstronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.George Eliot [pseud.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will ...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinAt the Land's End of France.Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.Gerald Moore Percy Wyndham LewisAt the Sign of the Black MoonPrint: Book
1800-1849'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'Mary Shelley Francois-Rene de ChateaubriandAtala; ou les amours de deux sauvagesPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... 'William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1700-1799Thomas Moore on encountering W[ordsworth] in Paris on 24 Oct. 1820: 'A young Frenchman called in, and it was amusing to hear him and Wordsworth at cross purposes on the s...William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown
1850-1899'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical


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