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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 am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Bergson, R?guy, Claudel, crowd ? and I?m with him all th...Winifred Agnes Moore Julian BendaBelphegorPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'He [her father] gave me a copy of Lou Wallis's Ben Hur in a slip case and I put in my diary which you’ll find there [points to MS diary] that I ...Hilary Spalding Lew WallaceBen HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot resist the desire to thank you for one of the finest & loftiest works of historical imagination I have ever read.'Henry E. Card (?) Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray make what use you like of the letter I wrote regarding Ben-Hur, to Lady Eardley. Few books that I have read have given me greater pleasure and I thoroughly appreci...John Vertue Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear General Wallace, -- I sat up the night before last to finish your beautiful book, and I assure you I find it difficult to express my admiration of it. It is won...Earl Dufferin Lew WallaceBen-Hur, A Tale of the ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benedictus de SpinozaBenedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whets our appetite for a feast of yoga - but cannot sat...William Soutar F Yeats-BrownBengal LancerPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of it. I certainly think it is a much better book tha...Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyBenightedPrint: Book
1850-1899Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I re...Lord Lyndhurst MacknightBenjamin Disraeli: A BiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William WordsworthBenjamin the WaggonerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'James Glass Bertram [n/a]Bentley's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In much that way, I felt later, when my mother first read Beowulf to me, Grendel must have come up from his marsh mists, pawing and snuffling round the doors of Heriot, ...Rosemary Sutcliff BeowulfPrint: Book
1900-1945'... remember that nearly all your reading is confined to about 150 years of one particular country.... And so, if you suddenly go back to an Anglo-Saxon gleeman's lay,...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]BeowulfPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818: 'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no conception that you possessed the protean talent of...John Hookham Frere George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoUnknown
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronBeppo: a Venetian storyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also am reading Berlin Diary, by Shirer, an American war correspondent. Our public men come out very badly in the years before the war.'Vere Hodgson William Lawrence ShirerBerlin DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Berliner TagblattPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable reference to the tempi passati. As to the book itself no ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBernal Diaz de Castillo: Being Some Account of Him...Print: Book


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