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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
 
1900-1945'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I me...Edith Sitwell August StrindbergThe InfernoUnknown
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1900-1945'I have read the MS. I have read it twice.' Hence follow 20 lines of quite strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson(probably) The Purser's Shilling an earlier versio...Manuscript: typescript (see additional information
1900-1945'I have read the P.I.L. I read them with contemptuous and cynical amusement. Some people, I suppose, will darken their windows and lay in stores of food, but I am c... [information leaflets]Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Samuel Richardson David Hartley[passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, hi...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ...Lady Bradshaigh David HartleyObservations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only such, as the omissions of three or four short ppassages...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a fea...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the Review and no 23 of the Magazine and never did I read any works with so much interest Though quite different messes they are both exquisite in kind a fea...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world wit...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntPoetical Works of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year discreetly & quietly in the Country.'Caroline Lamb Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasunidentifiedManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Unknown[Tragedies]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCriticism on Faust (working title)Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review
1900-1945'I have read the whole of Shakespeare several times and the character with whom I have most sympathy is poor Hamlet, the introvert, the dreamer!'Stuart Wood [pseud?] William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England during the reigns of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book


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