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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 have read the Briefechsel, a second time, with no little satisfaction; and even today am sending off an Essay on Schiller, grounded on that work, for the Foreign Revie...Thomas Carlyle Schiller & GoetheCorrespondencePrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] volumes of Mme de Remusat, just out -- her corresponden...Henry James Countess Claire-Elisabeth de RemusatCorrespondence (vols 6 and 7)Print: Book
1700-1799'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, when done, will amuse me by reading over again, a ver...Samuel Richardson various authors correspondence and other papersManuscript: Letter, letters and papers
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [rep...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.'George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maup...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details which do not interest me and there are no signs yet o...Sydney Smith (ed.) Richard BourkeCorrespondence of BurkePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinbur...Elizabeth Barrett Uvedale Price and James Commelinecorrespondence on pronunciation of classical langu...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re...Charles 2nd Earl Grey unknownCorrespondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ...Manuscript: LetterUnknown
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he re...William Wyndham Lord Grenville unknownCorrespondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second ...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848: 'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my departed friend Lord Castlereagh is most true. But I hav...Charles Arbuthnot C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editorCorrespondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Vi...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertCorrespondencesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and this desire has been increased by reading the "Corsair...Susan Ferrier George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and telling you so. The last Canto of it is much the bes...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronCorsair, The: a talePrint: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Thomas CoryatCoryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Mone...Print: Book
1900-1945'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To ...Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield unknownCosmic AnatomyPrint: Book


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