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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"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 18...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1700-1799"[William and Dorothy Wordsworth] probably read [the Decameron] together as he tutored her in Italian [1796] ... " This "consistent" with W[ordsworth]'s remark in Nov. 18...William and Dorothy WordsworthGiovanni BoccaccioIl DecameronePrint: Book
1850-1899#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Victor Hugovarious romancesPrint: Book
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Percy Bysshe Shelley unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat the...Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'.Katherine Mansfield Dorothy WordsworthJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899' "Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHigginson's DreamPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' "I have been reading Grey Wethers," said the Marquis- "a magnificent book. The descriptions of the downs are as fine as any in the language. Such power! Such power! ...Lord Curzon Vita Sackville-WestGrey WethersPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible...Edward Morgan Forster T. S. Eliot'Tradition and the Individual Talent'Print: Book
1900-1945' "Junior," she said to him, "you reeely must look. You remember Mrs Furnivall said that the part between Dieppy and Purris was vurry vurry interesting." Junior merely ... TimePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go...Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. It was my favourite at College. There is a rich pro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." ' Ernest Raymond[various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asle...Katherine Mansfield William TempleMiscellaneaPrint: Book
1900-1945' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - 'Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1900-1945' . . . as sentence follows sentence I marvel, and wonder, indeed, if the writer [Bruce Barton] is not himself an inspired seer and whether the spirit of the man he wri...Dora Seimons Bruce BartonThe Man Nobody KnowsPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the authority of a friend who has seen the proof and manu...anon Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: proofManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ... 'Dorothy Wordsworth Philip MassingerPicture, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'William Wordsworth [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative ...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799' ... as a student at Cambridge, W[ordsworth] made a number of translations from Virgil's Georgics .. surviving manuscripts indicate that the translations were made in su...William Wordsworth VirgilGeorgicsUnknown


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