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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'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Havelock Ellis Print: Book
1900-1945'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1900-1945'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th...Elizabeth Ring Bertrand Russell Print: Book
1900-1945[Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' Arnold Bennett Honore de Balzac Print: Book
1850-1899?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him es...Leslie Stephen William Wordsworth Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Edgar Allan Poe Print: Book
1850-1899"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but...Leslie Stephen Omar Khayyam Print: Book
1850-1899'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'King Kalakava Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print: Book
1900-1945' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- ...Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry Ward Print: Book
1800-1849'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Virgil Print: Book
1800-1849'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two m...Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book...Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Book
1800-1849'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.'Thomas Babington Macaulay  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		"But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t...Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Lowell Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas David Herbert Lawrence Print: Book


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