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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
 
1800-1849Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822: 'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he had read "Cain" some time ago, -- that he thinks it c...George Gordon Lord ByronCain, a MysteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiCaio GraccoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiCajo GracchoPrint: Book
1900-1945'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .'Arnold Bennett W Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a book from the Times, get Cakes and Ale by Somerset Ma...Hugh Walpole Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett W. Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book
1900-1945'I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta "Statesman " four months old, that Auden had brought for wrapping up g...Eric Shipton Calcutta StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'Frances Burney William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, and then stopped for six, -- finishing it in three mor...Harriet Martineau William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams. [...] 'Wedn...Claire Clairmont William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will be another Falkland to you." This reference to Godwin...Anne Isabella Lady Byron William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Caleb Williams'Mary Shelley William GodwinCaleb Williams, or Things as they arePrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Caleb Williams. S. reads Euripides'Mary Shelley William GodwinCaleb Williams, or Things as they arePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Rosamund Wallis André MauroisCall No Man HappyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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2. The minutes of the ...		Rosamund Wallis André MauroisCall No Man HappyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wed. Not a good day. No letter ... Feeling weak and done to the world.
Read Call of the Wild by Jack London.'		William Thomas Jack LondonCall of the WildPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you t...Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterCall to the Unconverted to Turn and LivePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Hugh ConwayCalled BackPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus ZwickCalmuc TartaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must pr...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book


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