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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 just been reading and digesting Engel's Conditions of the Working Classes in England, in intention, heaven knows, a noble work; but he can't write, so it raised a...Edith Sitwell Friedrich EngelsConditions of the Working Classess in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke returned safely. I have seen a photo of him in a black ...Antonia White Rainer Maria RilkeNotebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to...Mary Shelley Caroline Norton"The Wife" and "Woman's Reward"Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseEnglish OdesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued t...Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. BoydTaking in SailPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have just been remonstrating with Mr Knight about a couple of sentences in his charming new volume "Some Passages in a Working Life &c.". He quotes an early and witles...Harriet Martineau Charles KnightPassages of a Working LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Baptista BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Anna Maria PorterVillage of Mariendorpt, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. Ther...Antonia White John ForsterLife of Charles Dickens, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun the Adone - & like it' [letter to Maria Gisborne]Mary Shelley Giambattista MarinoL'AdonePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.'Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne KnightAn Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of TastePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJU...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. ...Mary Wollstonecraft Mary HaysCursory RemarksManuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet
1900-1945'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty in the trenches; and they seem filled with majesty ...Douglas Herbert Bell George William Russell"Shadows and Lights"Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...Anon Anon Margaret BrookeMy Life in SarawakPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More medicines! We had a very long talk and when we came out to the waiting room there was an old patient of his—Sister someb...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]Blue Book [Parliamentary Papers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? writers of the period between the two named. It wa...Winifred Agnes Moore Havelock EllisFrom Rousseau to ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished "Shirley"; which I think better than either "Jane Eyre" or "Villette". You must read it.'Clive Staples Lewis Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just finished The Way of the World; there is only one person in it , no there are three — who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissi...Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony TrollopeThe Way We Live NowPrint: Book


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