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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'I have lately read a report of the Corn Laws made in 1814 before the house of Commons, one witness says... It came out in evidence that most of the witnesses were land V...Robert Sharp anonReport on the Corn Laws OR Address to the Two Hous...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable things a very noble expression of what I believe to ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thi...James Hogg James Hogg'Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thi...James Hogg 'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmon...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me of Mr Nicholls, & also with what she herself has said...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be f...Thomas Carlyle anonBelfast Town & County AlmanackPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have looked over the articles Hogg v. Campbell and Noctes and am not only not angry but highly satisfied and pleased with both. I had forgot to mention to you that I w...James Hogg [articles concerning Hogg's poem 'Queen Hynde' in ...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whet...Lady Caroline Lamb Mathew (Monk) LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have made myself so ill with a story of Poe?s − ?King Pest?, by name. I did not sleep last night and I have scarcely been able to eat today.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeKing Pest: A Tale Containing An Allegory.Print: Book
1800-1849'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me, and which I conjecture were written by your husban...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sam Greg[remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have many things to acknowledge, but let me take them in turn. Firstly, I have to thank you for your verses. Need I say that however much of truth there may be in them...Charles Dickens George Cox[MS verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'Robert Louis Stevenson John Lord CampbellLives of the Lord Chancellors etcPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be understood'.Charlotte Bury Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sunday.' Arnold Bennett Abel HermantConfessions d'un homme d'aujourdhuiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have nearly finished The Morte D'arthur. I am more pleased at having bought it every day, as it has opened up a new world to me. I had no idea that the Arthurian leg...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas MaloryLe Morte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his poetry I am convinced that the extraordinarily vivid i...Arnold Bennett Rudyard KiplingThe Long TrailPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have never had the pleasure of meeting him [Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy] ; but I've read and admired his book.[...] I re-read Admiral Kennedy's book with gratit...Joseph Conrad William Robert KennedyHurrah for the Life of a Sailor: Fifty Years in th...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[sermon written for John Taylor]Manuscript: Unknown


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