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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
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau David Friedrich StraussDas Leben JesuPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the Englis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Henry Fothergill ChorleyLion: A Tale of the Coteries, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Amos BartonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as to give me a copy of "Adam Bede", - and I advance th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels and that class of books'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague...Vita Sackville-West William Butler YeatsLeda and the SwanPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile [s...Fanny Knight Jane Austenunidentified work in MSManuscript: novel in MS
1850-1899'I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.'Emma Darwin unknown LowellUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am half enamoured of the paper that touched his hand, and the ink that did his bidding. [I have] grown fond of the sweet comeliness of his charactery'.Oscar Wilde John KeatsSonnet in BlueManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I am happy that you think with me about waltzing. Have you seen Sir H. Englefield's verses? They appear to me perfect as far as touching forcibly the proper points. They...Sir William Elford Sir H. EnglefieldVerses on WaltzingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touched before and there is something in "The Siege of Co...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends hi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am housed in a sleeping carriage of 2 compartments of wh[ich] Mr Hatton has the other. Most comfy. Wrote my diary and read "Adam Bede".' Gertrude Bell George Eliot (pseud.)Adam BedePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle John MiltonProse worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.Thomas Carlyle George FoxHistorical Account of the Life, Travels,...of Geor...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am indeed highly delighted with the magazine as I well may for in all my life I never saw a more original miscellany. I think the letter from THE GOTH the shrewdest an...James Hogg John Wilson[various items in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'George Eliot [pseud] AristotlePoeticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing Neander's Life of Christ, and I believe I have derived good from it. I did not clearly understand his reasoning on miracles ... but every now and the...Fanny Allen Johann August W. NeanderThe Life of Jesus Christ
1900-1945'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent, but the man.'Virginia Woolf Julia Mary Cartwright AdyThe Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.Print: Book


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