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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'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'Thomas Green John MooreEdward. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore. [...] 'Saturday July 22nd. Finish Edward by Dr Moore.' Claire Clairmont John MooreEdward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from ...Print: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I could read and understand almost. Yes, very likely ...anon Oliver GoldsmithEdwin and AngelinaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Austra...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Austra...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have however, read Edwin Drood, and finished the hateful Cousin Pons.'James Lees-Milne Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whaley, ? & [ital.] unreadably [ital.] soft & tender & ...Frances Burney WhalleyEdwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five PartsPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P.Gillies, 23 November 1814: 'I have to thank you ... for Egbert, which is pleasingly and vigorously written, and proves that with a due sacrif...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesEgbert, or, The SuicideUnknown
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably]EgmontPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837: 'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]business[end italics] I mean -- except writing [......Elizabeth Barrett Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEgmontPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely bet...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEgmontPrint: Book
1900-1945[alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Ego 5", which is super.'Hilary Spalding James AgateEgo 5Print: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise to considerable discussion. Mrs Evans read from Rich...Mary Robson George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a man who loves "la littérature critique" (not litera...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerEgoists: A Book of SupermenPrint: Book
1700-1799'As my dear Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] had made me a present of fifty of his last Answer to Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], I sat down to read it, and found it so...Laetitia Pilkington Colley CibberEgotist, ThePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".'John Ruskin Sir John Gardner WilkinsonEgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945'I lunched with him ["a high dignitary of the Anglican Church"] at Shepheard's; and , leaving him for half and hour, during which I rushed home and read all up in Baedek...Ronald Storrs Karl BaedekerEgypt


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