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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
 
1700-1799'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children made such a noise and Made. de B. whilst embroideri...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I did not move from my chair but reached for a book. Picked up a Shakespeare and read the closing scene, "Othello".' William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moff...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell[a mathematical paper]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I did not think very highly of last Maga This appears more spirited the former part of the NOCTES is very good my part abominable'.James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it ws too witty and brilliant. He then wrote it over aga...Sydney Smith Basil HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of C...Print: Book
1900-1945'I did read most of Mr Philby's book in proof but I found it somehow difficult to get through — indeed I don't think I quite finished it. The style is so terribly a...Gertrude Bell Harry St. John PhilbyThe Heart of Arabia; a record of travel & explorat...Print: proofs
1600-1699'I did this day, going by water, read the Answer to the "Apology for Papists", which did like me mightily, it being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever ...Samuel Pepys William LloydThe late apology in behalf of the papists, reprint...Print: Book
1900-1945'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, ...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe ScarPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettPapa's War and Other SatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing yo...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerThe Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and O...Print: Book
1800-1849'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this coun...William Richard Grahame William Dunlop'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of UppePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived into objectives'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I do hope you are not too disgusted with me for not thanking you for the "[The Brothers] Karamazov" before. It was very dear of you to remember me; and of course I was e...Joseph Conrad Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'Joseph Conrad Prosper MériméeTamangoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by th...Arnold Bennett Arthur Conan DoyleThe British Campaign in France and FlandersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not care for a First Folio ofShakespeare. I rather prefer the common editions of Rowe and Tonson, without notes, and with plates, which, being so execrably bad, ser...Charles Lamb William ShakespeareThe Works of Mr William Shakespeare; in six volume...Print: Book
1850-1899'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all the more simple poems, thinking myself like his Luc...Hannah Mitchell William Wordsworth[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not know how many Greek plays you intend publishing, but I have been working at Euripides a good deal lately and should of all things wish to edit either the Mad He...Oscar Wilde EuripidesHercules FurensPrint: BookUnknown


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