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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
 
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945'A good many English here. We stare and are silent, following the manners of our own race. Don Quixote and walking are my only friends.'John Masefield Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote (probably)Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on at least with Spanish, for I have been able to meet w...Elizabeth Smith Miguel de CervantesDon QuixottePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyDon RoderickPrint: Book
1800-1849'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angrily: "Where did you hear that?". "I looked up and saw...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1800-1849'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron [husband] a question. He sa...Anne Isabella Lady Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1800-1849'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends the...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna Maria PorterDon Sebastian Or The House Of BraganzaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ridente Tuo labbro ed ora i saggi detti onesti'Lady Caroline Lamb Faustina Maratti ZappiDonna che tanto al mio bel sol piacestiUnknown
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Pr...Queen Victoria Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'John Ruskin anonDorothea TrudelPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Ernest de SelincourtDorothy WordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'All very cheerful to-day as there is very good news from the Front. Allies swiftly advancing and sweeping all before them ... The Germans won't tell us anything, but...J. A. Sillitoe Hill Dortmunder ZeitungPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almost nothing about his technique, which interests me c...Arnold Bennett André GideDostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philippe’s 'Bubu de Montparnasse'. And Roger Martin du Gard’s...Arnold Bennett Anna DostoevskyDostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?)Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile William ShakespeareDouble Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writtPrint: Book


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