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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 am altogether under the charm of that book ["A Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished ArcadiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in readi...Sydney Smith (ed.) Lady DacreRecollections of a ChaperonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as a guarantee of excellence: "British Product. Made in...Thomas Kitching [n/a]wrapperPrint: wrapper/ packaging
1800-1849'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow LaplaceMecanique CelestePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithRhoda FlemingPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithHarry RichmansPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other great authors. The works of Meredith and Hardy are quit...Arthur Vanson Professor Seccombe[articles in the "Bookman"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am anxious to thank S.G. [Signor Giovanni = John Gisborne] for the pleasure I have received from his tale of Italy a tale all Italy - breathing of the land I love - th...Mary Shelley John Gisborne[a tale of Italy]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am at present engaged in reading Newman's poems; do you know them at all? They are very, very delicate and pretty, and are like nothing more than one of those valuab...Clive Staples Lewis John Henry NewmanVerses on Various OccasionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Bergson, R?guy, Claudel, crowd ? and I?m with him all th...Winifred Agnes Moore Julian BendaBelphegorPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am at the Inland Voyage again [...] The Preface shall stand over, as you suggest, until the last and then, sir, we shall see.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details which do not interest me and there are no signs yet o...Sydney Smith (ed.) Richard BourkeCorrespondence of BurkePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am better now and hasten to thank you for the more than generous sample of the "Criterion" which is really very good and did help me through some pretty bad sleepless ...Joseph Conrad The CriterionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am better now; but it leaves me in a state of intellectual prostration, fit for nothing but smoking, and reading Charles Baudelaire.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelaireunknownPrint: Book


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