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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 have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1900-1945'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.'Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print: Book
1900-1945'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!'Hilary Spalding unknownSurgeon's Log, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell you at once what I think. It is a bad translation . ....Arnold Bennett Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote English. This statement I will die for. I don't know what...Arnold Bennett John GalsworthyThe Country HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been reading in library copies, Schopenhauer's "Will and Idea".....[He] is abstruse and depressing, but has some very interesting remarks on the theory of ...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and IdeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also been reading in library copies... Swinburne's "Erechtheus" which is another tragedy on Greek lines like "Atalanta", though not so good in my opinion.'Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneErechtheus: A TragedyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have also got ?An Autumn Effect? in proof: I shall send it to you to read, I think.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonAn Autumn Effect.Print: Serial / periodical, Proof copy of RLS's essay.
1900-1945'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of Morris...'Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Defense of Guenevere and other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have also read — for the first time — Hard Times.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensHard TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which...Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like extremely. Julia's character is beautiful & tho' Harri...Lady Caroline Lamb Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern PhilosophersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an occasional glance at principal headlines over breakf... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have another letter from Groves [sic] about my ?John Knox?, which is flattering in its way: he is a very gushing and spontaneous person.'Charles Grove Robert Louis StevensonJohn KnoxManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in Lond...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have at last received Italo Svevo's books and and have read some of them, finding them quite charming. I do not quite gather what you want me to do about them. I f...Ford Madox Ford Italo SvevoConfessions of ZenoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwar...Arnold Bennett E.H. AnstrutherThe Farm ServantPrint: Book


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