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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 just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'. Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comment.Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBrought ForwardPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am just now (when at home) reading 'Cosmos', a sketch of a physical description of the universe. Parts of it are very interesting, but others of too deeply scientifi...Eliza Ellis Alexander von HumboldtCosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of th...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.' Arnold Bennett Edmond and Jules de GoncourtGerminie LacerteuxPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the whole I think it is disappointing. One asks oneself why...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceVie de Jeanne d'ArcPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am longing to hear what you think of "D.[David]G.[Grieve]" I read the first volume this morning — oh! how dull it is, how dull! how full of unnecessary detail, h...Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardA History of David GrievePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probabili...Jane Austen Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am loving your book [The March of Literature]: in fact I'm enjoying it even more than Great Trade Route. I do hope it's doing as well as it deserves'.Esther Julia Ford Ford Madox FordMarch of Literature, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to me? One evening after returning from Diodati. It was ...Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1700-1799'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirabl...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr HillunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would ...Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much interested by Pignotti's history, which [underlined] though I bought [end underlining], I am reading, and have got into the seventh volume. The squabbles and t...Sarah Harriet Burney Lorenzo PignottiStoria della Toscana sino al principatoPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, w...Emma Darwin unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for year...G.C. Swayne George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but even that has its limits and is exhaustible. I am a...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less than any of the others - much less. Such I think yo...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates him highly. He has great thoughts and imaginations, bu...Alfred Tennyson Ralph Waldo EmersonEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged to you for Tytler, which I have read with pleasure and not without profit: it is a smooth, easy Book; seems well-founded, accurate, authentic; and with...Thomas Carlyle Patrick Fraser TytlerHistory of ScotlandPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the India...James Hogg William Laidlaw'Sagacity of a Shepherd's Dog'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the India...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem an...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas McCrieLife of John KnoxPrint: Book


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