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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 tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Madame de GenlisMemoires inedits de madame la comtesse de GenlisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have two children, 2? years and 1 year old. Though in some respects I would not object to increasing my family, quite frankly I do not feel that my nerves will stand t... Reader's DigestPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have very little feeling about them, especially in war-time. I used to admire what I read about them and their tidiness and efficiency and agriculture in peace time. s... newsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing numbers. I really anticipate good news of it this yea...James Hogg Thomas Pringle [ed.]Friendship's OfferingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J.W. KayeLife and correspondence of Charles, Lord MetcalfePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Edward Bouverie Pusey[Sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][pamphlets and magazines]Print: Pamphlet, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Mrs Meyrick Charles KingsleyHypatia or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Dick LauderScottish RiversPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have your List of Writings etc: a copy of it was lent to me by Mr Bain the bookseller.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander IrelandList of the writings of William Hazlitt and Leigh ...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have … changed billet, and the chaps here are very nice indeed. Good men, which is a great point. But in this new democracy almost everyone is jolly, or tries to b...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rudyard KiplingThe New Army in TrainingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have, for Sunday reading, great delight in old South'Sarah Harriet Burney Robert South[unknown]Print: Book
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1850-1899		'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't c...Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'I haven't meet [sic] any Aber Boys out here yet only A Potts of North Parade, & we were stationed in the same place for about 3 weeks & not knowing about him until I rec...Fred Hollin Cambrian NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Ruper...Gertrude Bell Edith Wharton?The Custom of the CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I hear nothing of the literary world very interesting except that people are commending some of Lord Byron's melodies as incomparably beautiful and laughing immoderately...James Hogg William WordsworthPoems by William Wordsworth, including Lyrical Bal...Print: Book


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