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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'I am not a little proud of the approbation you have been pleased to bestow upon a mountain Bard'.Robert Surtees James HoggMountain Bard, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly or clamorously, but silently and with an intensity of...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am not half so pleased [as with "The Last Post"] with "New York is not America", the American proofs of which I am now wading through. The sentences seem to be so drea...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordNew York is Not AmericaPrint: page proofs for American edition
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am not sufficiently fond of dissertations, of eternal analysis, of eloquent bubbles, to be a warm partizan of Mde de Staal [sic]. Between friends - but don't mention i...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine, Baronne de Stael-HolsteinZulma, et trois nouvellesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it, without offence to anybody.'Jane Austen William CowperVerses supposed to have been written by Alexander ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I am now engaged in reading "Sense & Sensibility'. It is, undoubtedly, one of her best. Do you remember the Palmer family?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am now full of study about writing something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am altogether reading Selden and Grotius and such other Authors,...Samuel Pepys Hugo GrotiusMare LiberumPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesAristotle, a Chapter from the History of ScienceManuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
1800-1849'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sens...Susan Ferrier Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man daily is greatly conducive to holiness.'Oscar Wilde Thomas ? KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now reading a history of England by Douglas Hamilton, it seems to be very well written' Albert Battiscombe William Douglas HamiltonOutlines of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Butler's Analogy'Elizabeth Gurney Joseph ButlerAnalogyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.'Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas GrayLife and LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however ...Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques RousseauEmilePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am now reading the Oxford Report.'Charles Darwin The Report of the second meeting of the British As...Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will b...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[dictionaries]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen it is an admirable piece of work & I congratulate y...Arnold Bennett unknownHortulus AnimePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am obliged to you for the books you were good enough to send me - Mr Crokers Volume was quite to my purpose' [letter to John Murray]Mary Shelley Thomas Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book


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