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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'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Thomas Erskine Samuel Richardson[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − ...Robert Louis Stevenson John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of LorneGuido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.Print: Book
1800-1849'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26'Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Hugh BlairSermonsUnknown
1850-1899'finally concluding in reading a French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Luc...John Ruskin Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'find my baby dead- Send for Hogg - talk - a miserable day - in the evening read fall of the Jesuits'.Mary Godwin Isaac D' IsraeliDespotism; or the fall of the JesuitsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'Tom Hopkinson Antonia WhiteLost Traveller, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'John Ruskin E.V. RippingilleArtist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Fine all day, sunny but cold. Mr Henriez, vice consul at Aleppo and at Mosul is on board, going to take up his post at Alexandria. Reading "Jean Christophe" — most...Gertrude Bell Romain RollandJean-ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'Fine day. Gym balances almost done. No letters. Read the Green Flag by Doyle. Ev Bridge. Play improving.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Green FlagPrint: Book
1800-1849'fine imagery, but is too speculative'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on the AscensionPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in...John Masefield Algernon Charles SwinburneChastelardPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in...John Masefield Algernon Charles Swinburne[poem on the death of Baudelaire]Print: Book
1800-1849'Fininsh [sic] Lucan's Pharsalia'Mary Shelley LucanPharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de MontolieuCaroline de LichtfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes morauxPrint: Book
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
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Samuel Taylor Coleridge'Christabel'Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin [n/a]Quarterly Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Finish "les voeux temeraires" - write and read Rienzi'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisLes Voeux t?m?raires; ou l'enthousiasmePrint: Book


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