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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 must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely disgusting allegories. Our own Milton, I think, alw...Eleanor Anne Porden Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (except the picture) about "Elektra"! And today not a word...Arnold Bennett Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards until ten, when I begin work, I read Reforma...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownworks on the ReformationPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'.William Lamb Lady Caroline LambAda ReisManuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer.
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Augusta Leigh Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I must thank you for the "B[lack]wood" where your "Puffin" was really interesting.'Joseph Conrad Stephen ReynoldsThe Puffin (uncertain)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettFriday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciatio...Print: Book
1700-1799'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns ... [an epigram]Unknown
1700-1799'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin v...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson[translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah']Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at Murder followed by determined suicide at Castlemaine...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I myself have been reading this week a book by a man named Love Peacock, of whom I had not heard, but who seems to be famous. He was a contemporary of Lamb, Hazlitt, B...Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Love PeacockHeadlong HallPrint: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias Smollett Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Fielding Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Richardson Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and Spirit in the Scotsman: though both of them knew the...Hester Lynch Thrale Jean Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the ...James Boswell [n/a]Scot's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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