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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 enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to bed. I wonder which famous case you were thinking of when y...William Henry Hudson Violet HuntTales of the UneasyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottWaverlyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not that sentence unbecoming in a minister's wife?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I essayed a new author the other day whom we have often heard praised and of whom I hoped great things — Landor: but the book I got, a series of imaginary letters call...Clive Staples Lewis Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...Samuel Johnson Francis Osborne[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...James Boswell Francis Osborne[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...James Boswell Joseph AddisonSpectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Makepeace ThackerayLovel the WidowerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'John Stuart Mill AesopFablesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember better, was the second.'John Stuart Mill XenophonThe AnabasisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all - with the profoundest despair. It seems nothing bu...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantPierre et JeanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see all my weaknesses in her, admire her for her frantic...Antonia White Katherine Mansfield[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'I feel compunctions not having written before about "The Forest" — a piece of work to which I came with the greatest interest. [...]. Anyway its a fine thing.' Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe ForestPrint: playscript
1850-1899'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitten by it, & so asked him to supper & whiskey just in ...Arnold Bennett Mrs H. H. PenroseThe Unequal YokeManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitten by it, & so asked him to supper & whiskey just in ...Arnold Bennett Mrs H. H. PenroseChubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-lifeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ["Success"] had produced on me.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamSuccessPrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.' Arnold Bennett Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Unknown


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