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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 been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's in actuality, have helped me more than any sermon. So...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Robert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I really think I like the Book better even than any of tho...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.'Katherine Mansfield  Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'Albert Battiscombe Frances TrollopeThe Lottery of Marriage. A novel.Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a bunch of modern plays published by Benn. Some of them seem to me to be very good and to strike a very real and human note. What do you think of the...Gertrude Bell Miles MallesonThe FanaticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading a good deal about the doctrine of original sin and the being born again...'Elizabeth Wedgwood  
1700-1799'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading a good deal of Herbert ... "Carve or discourse; do not famine fear, Who carves is kind to two, who talks to all."'Robert Louis Stevenson George HerbertThe Temple: The Church Porch xxiiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a horrible book of Jack London's called "The Jacket". If you come across [it] anywhere, don't read it. it is about the ill-treatment in an American...Clive Staples Lewis Jack LondonThe Star RoverPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better fo...Elizabeth Gurney John Gurney[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better fo...Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading a pamphlet by Mr Coleridge, which he calls ''The Statesman's Manual, a Lay Sermon.''... I do think I never did read such stuff as the sermon, such an...Sarah Wedgwood Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Statesman's Manual, a Lay SermonPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevensonletter (in "Nature")Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. "Looking into Jesus" is the titl...Elizabeth Marshall Isaac AmbroseLooking into JesusPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even Robert Lynd considers it difficult. I?ve just finis...Winifred Agnes Moore Rebecca WestThe Strange NecessityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again "The Well at the World's End", and it has completely ravished me. There is something awfully nice about reading a book again, with all the ha...Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Well at the World's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm, to the last paragraph with its ironic aside about the writers of books "pro...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesu...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion gets into these notebooks than into anything else.'Antonia White Antonia White[diary notebooks]Manuscript: Codex, notebook
1800-1849'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despotic shape but exercised with the geatest discretion'.Sydney Smith Antoine BeauvilliersL'Art de CuisinerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading and enjoying Sydney Smith's 'Moral Philosophy', which Mrs Smith sent me this winter, and I find it a delightful book.'Fanny Allen Sydney SmithMoral PhilosophyPrint: Book


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