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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'I try to read always with a very open mind, wide away [awake?] to assimilate all the author's knowledge. I have such a great admiration for authorship. After just fin...Arthur Vanson Pierre de CoulerainAu Coeur de la ViePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 20th December ?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland). This is the first time I have managed to get hold of this book. Mother was very friendly with Madele...Gerald Moore Romain RollandAu dessus de la m?lPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 22 December. I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous laziness of those who experienced the war, in failing...Gerald Moore Romain RollandAu dessus de la m?lPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...

Francis E. Pollard William Fryer HarveyAugust HeatPrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me ge...Margaret Oliphant J.M. BarrieAuld Licht IdyllsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Aulus Persius FlaccusAuli Persi Flacci Satirarum liberPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent me a little book called "Aunt Sarah and the War" the other day. Many thanks and jolly good—whoever it was! Send me the "Times" every now and again—wi...Arthur Oscar Hornung Wilfrid MeynellAunt Sarah and the WarPrint: Book
1700-1799Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783): 'I stood, a favouring muse, at Burey's side, To lash unfeeling Wealth and stub...Frances Burney Samuel HooleAurelia
1850-1899'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamAurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in SevillePrint: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comments
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...Anna Blunden Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ? John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Au...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...' Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot and G.H. LewesElizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'Richard Reginald Harding Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well appreciate - and I found myself marking the whole bo...Oscar Wilde Elzabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday March 9th. [...] Translate [...] a little of the life of Goethe.' [readings/translation/copying of translation from this text also recorded in journal entrie...Claire Clairmont Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAus meinem Leben: Dichtung und WahrheitPrint: Book
1850-1899Look here, you had better get hold of G.C. Lichtenberg’s "Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche": Gottingen, 1794 to 1816 (it was published in numbers see...Robert Louis Stevenson Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupfersti...Print: Book
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical


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