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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 with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blights in Ireland". But may I be allowed to point out ...P.L. Park 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not dou...Mary Shelley Edward George Earle Bulwer LyttonPaul CliffordPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. it is a very diverting book. The discovery that I make from it is, that men were at that time sooner old th...Charlotte Bury Nathaniel William WraxallMemoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Val...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading your father's letters to William which he has kept... What a blessing science was to him through all his anxieties and his bad health.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter, Letters from Charles Darwin to his son William.
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. When ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard WestallDay in Spring, APrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (have you read it?) and ten times the interest. Whe...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading...Calvin.' Robert Louis Stevenson John CalvinunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I have been seeking 'Falkland' here for a long time without success. Those beautiful extracts of it which you showed me at Tealby haunted me incessantly.'Alfred Tennyson Edward Bulwer-LyttonFalklandsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble paper of yours on the Advantages of Defeat, - a pape...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton[paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat]Unknown
1800-1849'I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & I really believe a perfectly upright & honest man. H...Sarah Harriet Burney William MitfordHistory of Greece, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person...Antonia White George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person...Antonia White [n/a][an American magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been thinking about Eliot and Jew hatred - a compassionate man one would say, cultured, civilised? and yet he can write poison like this: "The rats are underne...Bill Werner Thomas Stearns Eliot'Burbank'Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Se...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sail...Rebecca West Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has saile...Ford Madox Ford Violet HuntFlurried Years, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesAlfred Tennyson'Ulysses'Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRobert Browning'Epilogue to Asolando'Print: Book


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