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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
 
1700-1799'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Liberty and Necessity", and bid me read South's "Sermons...Samuel Johnson SouthSermons on PrayerPrint: Book
1850-1899'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular national songs are religious and that, when the cholera ...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Souvestre'account of the Bretons'Print: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton SpeedChronicle of the Life of King JamesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber StanleyJewish ChurchPrint: Book
1500-1599Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, brandin...James Usher StapletonFortress of the FaithPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1850-1899'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man...Arnold Bennett StendhalDe l'amourPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded to read books by Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Anatol...Zoe Procter Stendhal[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in technique. . . . I’m now reading Stendhal’s 'Promenades dans Ro...Arnold Bennett StendhalPromenades dans RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde StendhalScarlet and BlackPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Stendhal (pseud.)Le Rouge et le NoirPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'Pouring wet day, so I read the Chartreuse de Parme, and revelled in it.'James Lees-Milne Stendhal (pseud.)Chartreuse de Parme
1900-1945'It is now about time that Tertia read "La Chartreuse de Parme". Maguerite has just read it.

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I have subscribed to the M[anchester] Guardia...		Marguerite Bennett Stendhal (pseud.)La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle]Vie de NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the French, found its way into "To the North". In 1932 sh...Elizabeth Bowen Stendhal [pseud.]De l'amourPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[end underlining] commonplace that I have found it qu...Mary Shelley Stendhal [pseud.]Promenades dans RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...] 1853 [...] Grote worked at intervals even at the farm [...] the operati...George Grote Stephens'Book of the Farm'Print: Book
1850-1899From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'He came into my room one day looking for any new book to feed upon: he took down one by Stevenson called P...Alfred Tennyson StevensonPraying and WorkingPrint: Book


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