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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'I like his Brave New World but I do not think any of his other books are much good, in fact they bore me profoundly.'Aldous HuxleyBrave new worldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Had Aldous Huxley been as richly endowed with imagination as with intellectual penetration, his "Brave New World" might have been a truly creative challenge to our machi...William Soutar Aldous HuxleyBrave New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread ...Ignazio SiloneBread and winePrint: Book
1850-1899'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more particularly than I can from memory; […] I was very mu...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinBret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Bartolome de las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Percy Bysshe Shelley Bartolome Las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy & the F. of the Bees. Read Las Casas - S. reads Plato'Mary Shelley Bartolomeo de las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1900-1945'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac":Vera Brittain W. E. HenleyBric-a-BracPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned to Mr Blackwood that I had two tales I wished to publish, and at his request I gave him a reading of the manuscript. One of them was "The Brownie", which, I ...William Blackwood James HoggBridal of PolmoodManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 years &c a servile imitation of Scott and possesses ...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. I...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottBride of Lammermoor, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Thornton WilderBridge of San Luis ReyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".'Vera Brittain Thornton WilderBridge of San Luis Rey, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835: 'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am now trying to understand Prout upon chemistry.' Elizabeth Barrett Bridgewater TreatisesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for your prettily bound little volume which I feel sure must be interesting to all your mother's friends. There is no doubt something gracious always in the si...Oscar Wilde Rebecca SmithBrief Memorials of Departed Worth: being sketches ...Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas SimsBrief Memorials of Jean Frédéric OberlinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Advance copy of "Brief Words" came along; looks very well - scarcely anything that could be improved upon - excepting the actual contents. I can understand something of ...William Soutar William SoutarBrief WordsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottfried HerderBriefe das studium der Theologie betreffendPrint: Book


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