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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
 
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bellautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Duncan Grant Duncan Grantautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Molly MacCarthy Molly MacCarthyautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Duncan Grant Duncan Grantautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord k...Roger Fry Roger Fryautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its n...Francis Place Francis PlaceAutobiographyManuscript: unpublished memoirs
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature...Henry James Anthony TrollopeAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disappointingly deficient in emotion".'Arnold Bennett Herbert SpencerAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb Harriet MartineauAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.' Benjamin Britten Benvenuto CelliniAutobiographyPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all liter...Henry James Anthony TrollopeAutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S...Thomas Carter Jung StillingAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble motives acting can be undertaken as a profession, we h...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Fanny KembleAutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835: 'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by turns touched & amused by it. It is an instance of...Elizabeth Barrett Johann Heinrich Jung-StillingautobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'I have kept back my letter that I might send you Stilling's Autobiography! But [...] I cant get it an...Mrs Cox Johann Heinrich Jung-StillingAutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843: 'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! I have been deeply interested in it in all ways [....Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert HaydonautobiographyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excelle...Vita Sackville-West Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf John Cowper PowysAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.'Virginia Woolf John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book


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