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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[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Immanuel KantCritik der UrtheilskraftPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, thoug...Henry James H. G. Wellscritique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense abou...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, thoug...Henry James Arnold Bennettcritique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense abou...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books...Ewan McColl Immanuel KantCritique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socrates; but it is impossible not to admire the wisdom a...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoCritoPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about partic...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Crockford's Clerical DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History...George Eliot and G.H. LewesThomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It is impossible not to be amused - impossible not occ...Dr Milman Mary Russell MitfordCromwellManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: 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 Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsCross CreekPrint: Book
1850-1899One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the liste...Annie Coghill Crossing the BarPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, & Crotchet Castle. Both are so much better than I rem...Virginia Woolf Thomas Love PeacockCrotchet CastlePrint: Book
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo...Thomas Burt John RuskinCrown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traff...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a paper on Ruskin's Economics principally with referen...Blanche Ridges John RuskinCrown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traff...Print: Book
1850-1899"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCrown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1900-1945[In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.'Hilary Spalding Thomas ArmstrongCrowthers of BankdamPrint: Book
1800-1849'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I would give Shandy and my pearl necklace to be able t...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCruthers and JohnsonPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly all, except "Cruz Alta" itself.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCruz Alta Print: Book
1800-1849'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";'Thomas Carlyle Friedrich MohsCrystalographyPrint: Book


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