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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 have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonSummer EveningPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Faerie Queene" in Everymans both here and at home ever since I left you.... of course it has dull and even childish passages, but on the whole...Clive Staples Lewis Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found the following passage, which reminded me of a resolv...Donald William Alers Hankey James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Banquet of Plato. When you come here I will read it to you.'Sir Walter Raleigh PlatoBanquetPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'William Richard Grahame n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Buonaparte'.Sydney Smith Anne Jean Marie Rene SavaryThe Memoirs of the Duke of RovigoPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this pro...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic ...Margaret Oliphant John Addington SymondsLife of SymondsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I like, except the sad party stuff in the last 3pp.'Harriet Martineau variousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highly respected in the neighbourhood. His people have se... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin, ed. Francis DarwinThe Life and Letters of Charles DarwinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' Arnold Bennett Charles Sarolea'Everyman' magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been reading this week a book by Swinburne from the Library, a "Study on Shakespeare". This is my first experience of his prose, and I think I shall make it the...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburneA Study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.'William Richard Grahame David ThompsonHistory of the Late War Between Great Britain andPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts] much to do with the "Angel"? It seems to me to be p...Joseph Conrad (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts)The Angel in the HousePrint: probably an acting edition
1700-1799'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to continue them but as I hope that I shall soon have ...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Elizabeth Wynne[diaries]Manuscript: diary
1850-1899'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'George Eliot [pseud.] Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la VillemarquContes populaires des anciens BretonsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Wallace in "the Academy" ... in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin episode will form one of the few bright points among rival claimants.....Erasmus Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace[articles in the 'Academy']
1700-1799'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence I have to believe in religion ... my mind has not be...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I met them in yr letter.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhiteTravel in Northumberland and the BorderPrint: Book


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