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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
 
1800-1849Lady Georgiana Fullerton [nee Leveson Gower] to her mother, Harriet, Countess Granville [from letter enclosed in letter of 4 April 1844 from Lady Granville to her sister ...Lord Clarendon Lady Georgiana Leveson GowerEllen MiddletonPrint: Unknown, In proof
1800-1849'it is a novel of really great power & very strong interest, rather of a painful kind, a very pure and high strain of sentiment, with now & then to much of Puseyite tende...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Mrs MeekEllesmerePrint: Book
1800-1849'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [Th...Ellen Weeton Mary Ann HanwayEllinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Vo...Print: Book
1700-1799'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lillo never saw it there - the Charge of Plagiarism sho...Hester Lynch Thrale George LilloElmerick; Or Justice TriumphantPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for misprints!' Arnold Bennett Alexis Saint-L?ger L?gerElogesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who enjoys, in a higher degree that "Eternal sunshine of...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus, but I think very little remember'd'Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEloisa to AbelardPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its Ingenuity; they are commonly very ignorant Women, & ca...Hester Lynch Thrale Alexander PopeEloisa to Abelard Print: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Harriet Martineau Oliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1850-1899'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday'Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or MargaretOliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...K. Evans Oliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'Mary Shelley George DigbyElvira; or, the worst not always truePrint: Book
1600-1699'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read...John Evelyn John EvelynElysium BritannicumManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusEmancypantkiPrint: Book
1900-1945

'"This is my beloved Prus," Konrad [sic] pointed at a volume of "Emancypantski". I can read it over and over again." When I laid my hand on "Kazimierz Wielki", he sai...

Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusEmancypantkiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now he discovered "one of Swinburne's models" - Gautier: "I have just bought is "Emaux et Camees", he told Osborne, "translated several of them, and read a good many. Sc...Arthur Symons Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book
1850-1899'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't ...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierEmaux et CaméesPrint: Book


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