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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
 
1850-1899"Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be ...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp...Leslie Stephen John Milton Print: Book
1850-1899'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the R...Frank Oliphant Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1850-1899'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F...Margaret Oliphant R.H. Story Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS
1900-1945'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'Katherine Mansfield  Print: 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
1900-1945'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wre...Katherine Mansfield Nietzsche Print: Book
1900-1945'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'.Katherine Mansfield  Print: Book
1900-1945'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.Katherine Mansfield  Print: Book
1900-1945'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'.Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fix...Katherine Mansfield Lloyd George Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1900-1945'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s...Jennie Lee Sigmund Freud Print: Book


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