Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   371 372 373 374 375  376  377 378 379 380 381   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in The Scotsman]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have opened no other book, save the "Monthly Review" and "Appendix" since I came home... A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is...Sarah Harriet Burney n/aThe Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done very well with the illustrations he has gone very mu...Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsunknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have perused the last lampoon of your ingenious friend, and am not surprised you did not find me out under the name of Sappho, because there is nothing I ever heard in...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Alexander PopeunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quartermasters or Interpreters Corps) has an intimate knowled...Arnold Bennett T. S. EliotunknownUnknown
1850-1899'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'.Robert Louis Stevenson Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have re-read your book on Trafalgar and can only repeat that your argumentation is absolutely convincing.'Joseph Conrad Henry NewboltThe Year of Trafalgar: being an account of the bat...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [italics]very[end italics] well written - account of s...Sydney Smith Washington IrvingAstoriaPrint: Book
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his part...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first impression being that there is a considerable "inside...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Shifting of the FirePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "The First Fleet Family" with interest tempered by disappointment.' Thereafter follow two pages of largely negative criticism.Joseph Conrad George Lewis (Louis) Becke (and Walter Jeffrey)A First Fleet FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read (before breakfast) your "Gambetta" a most excellent thing both as picture and appreciation of the man.'Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinGambettaManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c...Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]Lucien LeuwenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Chartreuse'.[La Chartreuse de Parme]Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1700-1799'I have read a good deal of Lavator's journal and have felt sympathy with him. I like the book as it reminds me of my duty'Elizabeth Gurney LavatorJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]Print: Book


Go to page: [1]   371 372 373 374 375  376  377 378 379 380 381   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design