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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
1800-1849		"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none."Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Alphonse Daudet Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Plato Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism."John Bedford Leno [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings]Print: Poster
1850-1899"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to re...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellPictures from AppledorePrint: Book
1800-1849"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find it very Easy; am now learning my Hebrew [ABC]. I rea...William Blake The New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899"I had Plato in my pocket & intermittently read through the Protagorus - as well as I could - which lasted me till Bristol & I hope improved my Greek."Leslie Stephen PlatoProtagorusPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li...Maria Edgeworth John SargentThe Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th...Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry of Creation" by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe Charles TomlinsonIntroduction to the Study of Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe John HerschelA preliminary discourse on the study of Natural PhPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe Robert EllisThe Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of thePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull...Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what yo...Leslie Stephen W Hepworth DixonNew AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; ...Maria Edgeworth Elizabeth InchbaldA Simple StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark...Leslie Stephen [biographies]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1800-1849"I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the tas...Maria Edgeworth Germaine De StaelCorinnePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan."Leslie Stephen Robert Louis StevensonOrdered SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things."Leslie Stephen William JamesThe varieties of religious experiencePrint: Book


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