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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
 
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 a...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradRomancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradVictoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsBealbyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'Cassandra Austen Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Book in Manuscript
1850-1899'I do so want to talk over Mrs Carlyle with you, and I hope you will get it soon. It is most interesting and entertaining, but what a coarse woman, though only to a husba...Emma Darwin Jane Welsh CarlyleLetters and Memorials of Jane Welsh CarlylePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Michel de Montaigne Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Moliere (pseud.)unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanSilex ScintillansPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanThey are all gone into the world of lightPrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me ge...Margaret Oliphant J.M. BarrieAuld Licht IdyllsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.'Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1800-1849'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff says, one of "those whom Heaven has blessed with af...Walter Scott Richard Brinsley SheridanThe CriticUnknown
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Abeille: conte Print: Book
1900-1945'I don't know whether I ought to mention my delight at your approval of "Abeille" [by Anatole France]. I put it in your hands with confidence and trust - but one never k...Joseph Conrad Anatole France ThaisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or ...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer-LyttonLost Tales of Miletus, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William ElderBiography of Elisha Kent KanePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James PartonLife and Times of Aaron Burr, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton[Life of Barnum]Print: Book


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