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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
 
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after coach and steamboat journey]. Installed myself in a...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini FlemingPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli], in order to lie do...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (second volume)Print: Book
1850-1899'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 1880s-early 1890s: "Even when I was in London, I read ...Marie Belloc unknownContemporary French novelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis François-Marie Arouet VoltaireContes Choisis. Preface de Gustave LansonPrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamContes CruelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'... et lisais les Contes Drolatiqe de nostre feu Maistre de Balzac ...' [and I was reading the amusing stories of our master Balzac]Robert Louis Stevenson Honore de BalzacContes DrolatiquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact...Clive Staples Lewis Charles NodierContes FantastiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes morauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes morauxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after dinner read Rienzi'.Mary Godwin Jean Francois MarmontelContes MoreauxPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'George Eliot [pseud.] Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la VillemarquContes populaires des anciens BretonsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems thought so highly of the performance that he would per...Gilbert Cooper Arthur MurphyContestPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' ... this is being written in a cellar which is my present billet. The house which stood overhead was rendered a ruin a long time ago and the bricks etc make a thi...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Continental Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment...William Thomas Continental TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Rained all day long! So we had the whole day off!! Had some damn good meals and a good sleep. Also received our first newspaper (printed for prisoners), the "Contine...J. A. Sillitoe Hill Continental TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'He [Johnson] gave much praise to his friend, Dr. Burney's elegant and entertaining travels, and told Mr. Seward that he had them in his eye, when writing his "Journey to...Samuel Johnson Charles BurneyContinental Travels 1770-72Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey Thomas Maycontinuation of Lucan's PharsaliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...Hester Lynch Thrale Edward Hyde, 1st earl of ClarendonContinuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarend...Print: Book


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