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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
 
1850-1899'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I know the place; it is called (to imitate Bunyan) the ...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanThe Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that whi...Print: Book
1850-1899'I can see myself now, seated on the nursery floor, hugging my doll while I read "The Peep of Day". Religion held no terrors for me.'Emily Lytton F. L. BevanThe Peep of DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flow...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I can't be bothered reading heavy stuff. I don't seem able to concentrate for long. I like books of the romantic and family kind. Just now I've got at home the "Home Div...Pearl BuckThe Home DividedPrint: Book
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as m...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I can't tell you how much I like "The Sun and the Fish", (all the more because it is all about things we did together,) and I am ordering a copy of Time and Tide.'Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfThe Sun and the FishPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I can't tell you what delight and happiness The Eternal Moment has been to me, and I can't thank you enough for your very great kindness in sending it to me. Even though...Edith Sitwell E M ForsterThe Eternal MomentPrint: Book
1850-1899'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near here "[italics] D.V. Thomas [end italics], Purveyor of...Robert Louis Stevenson D.V. ThomasadvertisementUnknown
1800-1849'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comm...Adam Sedgwick William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole ti...William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham WhitakerHistory and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been readin...Mr Kenyon Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1700-1799'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me with a new book it was the reading made easy it had/man...Joseph Mayett anonReading made easy in a variety of useful lessonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot resist the desire to thank you for one of the finest & loftiest works of historical imagination I have ever read.'Henry E. Card (?) Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out of the house, and begin life anew in the cool blue ni...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot tell you how much I think of the Magazine it is so interesting and spirited throughout it is safe'James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I cannot tell you what they [the Miss Jaffrays] are reading. Perhaps Queechy ...'Misses Jaffray Elizabeth (Susan) Wetherell (Warner)QueechyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I cannot tell you with what delight I found your lovely history of Alexandria, and your most kind letter, awaiting me when I returned here on Thursday. ( I was delayed i...Edith Sitwell E M ForsterAlexandria: A History and GuidePrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny quite right and, if you understand, not too literary...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonLighthouse Construction and IlluminationManuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy
1800-1849'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hi...James Hogg David Laing[review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'T...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonYoung FelixPrint: Book


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