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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 always meant to ask you whether you read "Fidelity" by Susan Glaspell — of course you did, and didn't you think it excellent?'Gertrude Bell Susan GlaspellFidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I always read sports page at breakfast and the rest in the evening. I read the Times in the train going to business, the Mirror at odd moments and the People on Sunday m... PeoplePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith William JacobTravels in the South of SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith Benjamin FranklinThe Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L...Print: Book
1800-1849'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Francois Rene de ChateaubriandMoïsePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am a good deal charmed by Jeffrey's letters; they have some of the taste of Lamb's. The life is dull, as Lord Cockburn cannot resist giving a long character of everyon...Emma Darwin Henry Thomas CockburnLife of Lord JeffreyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'Ford Madox Ford Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, into a play. Catiline is a very middling play. The c...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am a week late in thanking you for your parcel and letter … and specially for the book of sonnets which has been constantly either in my pocket or hand. It is just...Charles Hamilton Sorley Anon Anon[sonnets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.Marianne Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Maria Edgeworth Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, C...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownlaw booksPrint: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.
1850-1899'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my return in the shape of some Montaigne.'Robert Louis Stevenson Michel Eyquem de MontaigneLes EssaisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am also reading an English translation of Mme de Sevigne and like it very much.'Charles Darwin Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SévignéLetters of Madame de Sevigne to her daughter and h...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h...Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CreseydePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am also reading Clough's ''Life''. He was as religious as Lamb at the same age.'Emma Darwin Blanche Clough?Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough: With a Selec...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparatively small Faults and Virtues" merits to be written in...Sarah Harriet Burney Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book


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