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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 occupied a geat deal just now in reading a new novel called "Family Secrets", it is a compound of unnatural occurrences but being embarked on it I am dommed to wade...Thomas Fremantle Sarah Stickney EllisFamily SecretsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am of course with you entirely both as to the matter and the expression of the Agricultural pamphlet. Thanks very much for sending me the copy.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Land: A PleaPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note down so many of its vagaries. Yet I never have resoluti...Charlotte Bury Charlotte BuryDiaryManuscript: MS journal
1900-1945'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I have known a number of your friends, and of course I ...Arnold Bennett Andre GideNouveaux Pr?textesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am pretty sure that J[oseph] C[onrad] read it [the bound Christmas annual of "Boy's Own Paper"] after I had gone to bed because I found little spills of cigarette ash ...Joseph Conrad Boy's Own AnnualPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am proud to learn that there is one [a phrase in "Lord Jim"] worthy to serve as an epigraph to one of the books of "Les Caves du Vatican". What a beautiful start! What...Joseph Conrad André GideLes Caves du Vatican (Book 1)Print: see additional information
1800-1849'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by n...Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Queen's Ball: A PoemPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists ...Arnold Bennett Henry Woodd NevinsonIn the Valley of TophetPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists ...Arnold Bennett William Edwards TirebuckMiss Grace of All SoulsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;...Thomas Carlyle Book of JobPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am rather dithered after writing nearly all night & [underlined] then [end underlining] reading the [underlined] Marsden Case [end underlining] - not without satisfact...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordMarsden Case, The: A RomanceUnknown
1900-1945'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So many groups of distinct, yet intertwining lives, all so...Antonia White Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, when I have digested it I shall give you my ideas. The...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsFirst and Last ThingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Clarissa Harlowe" with all the pleasure in the world…It is the cleverest book in some ways that can be imagined; and deals with so many absorbing problems ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, wh...Thomas Kitching Isabel Constance ClarkeHaworth ParsonagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "Le fils Grandsire" with delight. It is charming and characteristic: it is alive. I shall finish the book tomorrow and speak of it in my next letter.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Peculiarities of Behaviour" by Wilhelm Stekel. It is curious how these psychoanalysts boil everything down to food urge or sex urge.'Thomas Kitching Wilhelm StekelPeculiarities of BehaviourPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Peter Abelard" ...[it's] a wonderful book and not at all hard to read. I have nearly finished it now. Wish I hadn't!'Hilary Spalding Helen WaddellPeter AbelardPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading "The Village on the Cliff", and cannot tell you how beautiful I think it. I am inclined to give up literature. [italics]I[end italics] can?t write like that...Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Isabella ThackerayThe Village on the Cliff. A Novel.Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading "Tom's Brown's Schooldays", which is awfully nice.' Hilary Spalding Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book


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