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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 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 EuripidesPhoenissaePrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pamphlet on the Condition and Education of English chil...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Joseph KayCondition of Poor Children in English and German T...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of...Edwin Muir [n/a]ChumsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Walter Wilson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not know whether you touch C. Voysey's writings. I was pleased with his last discourse, "Man the only Revelation of God".'Fanny Allen Charles VoyseyMan the only Revelation of God
1850-1899'I do not like Grant Allen's book about your father. It is prancing and wants simplicity.'Emma Darwin Grant AllenCharles DarwinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much...Maria Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.Sydney Smith Jacques PeuchetMemoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie...Print: Book
1800-1849'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. I am not the less obliged to you for sending it. You...Sydney Smith T.H. ListerEpicharisUnknown
1700-1799'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; it is indeed almost impossible to follow him in the s...George Crabbe Johan Christian FabriciusSystema entomologiaePrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the...James Hogg Thomas Gillespie[various pieces in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the...James Hogg Samuel Taylor Coleridge'Letter to Peter Morris, M.D. On the Sorts and Use...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I do not rank this Maga very high but would like much to know who this new village poet is this juvenile Crab Coleridge's letter is great stuff but correspondence of the...James Hogg John Galt'The Ayrshire Legatees; Or, The Correspondenceof t...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and Punishment"? English translation damnable; but it is...Arnold Bennett Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book


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