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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'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.'Hilary Spalding Henry WilliamsonDandelion DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it a tenth as much as I. It was disappointing, and it...Henry James George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing and the sapience -- to say nothing of the tortuosity ...Henry James George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:'Vera Brittain George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He ...Zoe Procter George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the lite...Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Andre ChevrillonDans L'IndePrint: Book
1900-1945'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Montparnasse", by C.L. Philippe (if you haven?t already ...Arnold Bennett J.H. RosnyDans les ruesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Dean ChurchDante and Other EssaysPrint: 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 George Bernard ShawDark Lady of the SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? Her nerves must be strong if she can read it without s...Anne Romilly George Gordon, Lord ByronDarknessPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'John Ruskin anonDarkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new agePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von SchellingDarlegung des wahren Verhaltnisses der Naturphilos...Print: Book
1850-1899'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Da...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Russel WallaceDarwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Tuesday] September [...] 27th. [...] Read all the morning Das Bild von Houwald with Mr. G[ambs]. It is a charming tragedy in the romantic style and the novelty of th...Claire Clairmont Ernst Christoph von HouwaldDas Bild: Trauerspiel in funf AktenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich RichterDas Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit dePrint: Book
1850-1899"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."George Bernard Shaw Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of hi...Ifan Edwards Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d...Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book


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