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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
 
1800-1849'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi...Percy Bysshe Shelley CiceroCato Maior de SenectutePrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".'Thomas Turner Joseph AddisonCato, A TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioCatone in UticaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday May 12th. Read Proces Fualdes. [...] 'Saturday May 13th. Read Proces Fualdes.'Claire Clairmont Cause celebre: Proces des prevenus de lassassinat ...Print: Unknown
1850-1899[Letter] 'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of Louis XIV always amuses me...'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuveCauseries du lundi (Monday Chats)Print: Book, Newspaper
1800-1849?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishe...Maria Edgeworth Charles-Louis MontesquieuCauses de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decad...Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its Carlylisms &c.'Harriet Martineau John Lothrop MotleyCauses of the Civil War in America [probably]Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved


[...]

[Min] 4 The Sub...

Howard Smith Hilaire BellocCautionary Tales for ChildrenUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet...		Howard Smith Hilaire BellocCautionary Tales for ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945'At 8pm, there is a very good St George's Day concert by D-Block. They read extracts from the works of Shakespeare, Rupert Brooke and Kipling, as well as Noel Coward's "C...prisoners of warNoel CowardCavalcadePrint: Book
1800-1849'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they ar...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work. I spotted it first in the old MacClure Mag.; certainly without any help from any...Joseph Conrad James Marie HopperCaybiganPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantCe Cochon de MorinPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will have found in them much abuse, little eloquence, and...Mary Berry Cease your FunningPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840: 'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a novel), for it beguiled me through a weary night, and m...Caroline Norton Catherine GoreCecilPrint: Book
1800-1849?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.?Maria Edgeworth Fanny BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impressions before the whole novel had been read -- or finishe...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyCeciliaManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this Mode of Life lasts, her Book will be of Value, as the...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wyndham and Johnson were talking of Miss Burney's new Novel - 'Tis far superior to Fielding's, says Mr Johnson; her Characters are nicer discriminated, and less prominen...Samuel Johnson Frances BurneyCeciliaPrint: Book


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