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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
 
1800-1849Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S...George Gordon Lord Byron Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre: 'Sir -- Mr. Lamb -- (one of my colleagues in the S...George Lamb Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" at your brother's -- on my exclaiming in the words o...Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird Charles Robert MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me say how much he was indebted to your introduction ...George Gordon Lord Byron C. R. MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me say how much he was indebted to your introduction ...The Hon. George Lamb C. R. MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Charles R. MaturinBertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a traged...Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mr Morley to Mrs Ward] It was most pleasant to me to receive the little volume ["Bessie Costrell"] in its pretty dress, and with the friendly dedication. It...Mr Morley Mary Augusta WardBessie CostrellPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, full of the real and the [italics] juste [end italics]....Henry James Mary Augusta WardBessie CostrellPrint: Book
1850-1899'The children who like Bessy's Troubles are great geese, & no judges at all, which children generally are, for it is complete rubbish I am sorry to say'.'children', presumably known to Marianne GaskellElizabeth Cleghorn GaskellBessy's Troubles at Home Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William HazlittBest of HazlittPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding VariousBest Sporting StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Poetry Composed by Llewelyn on the Death of his Greyhound' 'The Spearman [spearmen in original] heard the bugle sound/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxWilliam Robert SpencerBeth Gelert, or the Grave of the GreyhoundUnknown
1700-1799" Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages."Lady Eleanor Butler MetastasioBetulia LiberataPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I have got a batch of my syllabus correspondence away...Gerald Moore H.W. NevinsonBetween the ActsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Howard Smith Henry Woodd NevinsonBetween the WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Howard Smith Henry Woodd NevinsonBetween the WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'7th January 1929 Monday. This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie. ?Beyond? Galsworthy.' Gerald Moore John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'8th January 1929 ?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most delightful reading, and a most beautiful argument. ...Gerald Moore John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'This ["Beyond"] is a gripping piece of writing. I got as far as p.47 before it dawned on me that these were marvellous opening pages. The others are not less so. My dear...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know this modern six-shilling mummer of "life," called Galsworthy? You may be aware that he has recently published, among other novels, a creation, "Beyond,...Wainwight Merrill John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book


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