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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' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first...Anne Lister Jean Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by Clive [Bell].' Virginia Woolf Arsene HoussayeConfessionsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde St AugustineConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sunday.' Arnold Bennett Abel HermantConfessions d'un homme d'aujourdhuiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Did you agree with the scheme the owners put before the coal commission? It looked to me very black if after all those nearly impossible, if not quite impossible, things...Gertrude Bell Ernest J. P. BennConfessions of a CapitalistPrint: Book
1850-1899'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an Opium Eater" he discovered Wordsworth'.John Masefield Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Last week end was busily employed in reading through De Quincey's "Confessions" as a whole, for the first time, from which I derived great satisfaction. How much of ...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to...Elizabeth Marriage Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-Eater Print: Book
1900-1945'I have at last received Italo Svevo's books and and have read some of them, finding them quite charming. I do not quite gather what you want me to do about them. I f...Ford Madox Ford Italo SvevoConfessions of ZenoPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July - 6 August 1793: 'I have just met with a passage in Rousseau which expresses some of my religious opinions better tha...Robert Southey Jean Jacques RousseauConfessions, Book 12Print: Book
1900-1945'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages an...Katherine Mansfield Henry JamesConfidencePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', beginning "Righteously have jealousy and suspicion been e... HareConfidence and DistrustPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like good modern books - I'm very fond of American books - or Dorothy Conyer's - good racy stories. I hate detective stories, I like Naomi Jacobs' early ones. I read ...Faith BaldwinConflictPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I re...Lord Lyndhurst Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book


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