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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 just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.' Arnold Bennett Marie CorelliSorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find ...Sydney Smith Harriet MartineauLife in the Sick RoomPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of my articles.' Arnold Bennett Nevile FosterThe Universal MachinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I think it is such a fine book and I was deeply moved b...Edith Sitwell Sydney SchiffPrince HempseedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous that he could publish such History of his own Weakn...George Crabbe William HazlittLiber Amoris, or the New PygmalionPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real theme and some construction. This man is a genius, and ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceLost Girl, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a littl...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiDzieje grzechuPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. The international murderess episodes take but a littl...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiPopiolyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other soul. He is simply unspeakable. I will ram this stat...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just received my dear Mackintosh's 'History of the Revolution' ... I cannot read it with quiet nerves.'Jessie Sismondi James MackintoshHistory of the Revolution in England in 1688Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just reread "Le fils Grandsire", opening the book at random, and continuing at random, I have read every single word. with an odd and entirely sentimental fondnes...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLe Mariage du fils GrandsirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just returned from Clarence where I found only a few Mothers, but some very agreeable ladies amongst them. I read them "Barbara T[t]hwaite" by which they were muc...Gertrude Bell Florence BellWill o' the Wisp Print: Book
1850-1899'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, cho...Robert Louis Stevenson William Forbes-MitchellReminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminiscences. . .'Arnold Bennett National NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learn...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...Ford Madox Ford Ezra PoundThe Cantos of Ezra Pound: Some TestimonialsPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'I have just seen the Pound pamphlet though Farrar & Rinehart never took the trouble to send me a copy. I think it looks fine and is a tribute not only to Mr. Pound but...Ford Madox Ford Archibald MacLeishThe Hamlet of A. MacLeishPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'Jane Baillie Welsh Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-HelenaPrint: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low state I was, and how much I passed through, unbelief...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalsManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mary ShelleyLast Man, ThePrint: Book


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