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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'Have you read "Comment debuta Marcel Proust"? I cried over it. (By the way, that might be quite a good book to publish in translation; it's quite short.)' Vita Sackville-West Louis de RobertComment debuta Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itself to me, and I began to write it at once. Yet noth...Arnold Bennett André GideIsabellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most difficult task to fulfil. The judicious curtailment and...S.P. Oliver DilkeArticle on Sir Stafford Northcote in the AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have been doing the very scenes he mentions & his descri...Cornelia Sorabji RuffiniDr AntonioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a ...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de BourrienneMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? It is a most illuminating business, & one of the be...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantEtude sur Gustave FlaubertPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.'Arnold Bennett Dorothy M. RichardsonBackwaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of health'.Harriet Martineau Ralph Waldo EmersonEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Frank HarrisOscar Wilde: His Life and ConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Anton ChekhovThe Tales of TchehovPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Th...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1850-1899'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.' Arnold Bennett A. E. HousmanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronManfredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronDarknessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Samuel Romilly George Gordon, Lord Byron[poems]Print: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.Sydney Smith Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson The History of ManPrint: Book


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