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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 only divide my time between riding Peggy and reading Sevigne by the fire...'Elizabeth Wedgwood Marie de Rabutin-Chantal SevigneCourt Secrets: or the Lady's Chronicle Historical ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I only hope that its appalling details of profligacy are exaggerated'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Alexandre DumasLa RegencePrint: Book
1900-1945'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up ... unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I only read weekly magazines, like the "Woman". I prefer sewing and knitting.' The WomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with your novel.[...] The book is captivatng enough in all ...Joseph Conrad E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant WilsonThe MainlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterUnknown
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone ...Anthony Eden [A Russian Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone ...Anthony Eden Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev Print: Book
1900-1945'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, at least in the Windlestone library [at Windlestone ...Anthony Eden [Russian novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before but I preferred to read the book first. I've read it twice with casts back here and there. The book is remarkable- and that it will be...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordA Free Lance of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the...Joseph Conrad Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist...Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for the book ["Siri Ram"] which I read directly it reached my hands.'Joseph Conrad Edmund CandlerSiri Ram Revolutionist: A Transcript from Life Print: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose)...Joseph Conrad Algernon SwinburneA Letter to Ralph Waldo EmersonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It has taken my fancy very particularly, though (not t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just of...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Madame Mohl[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspon...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives anim...Mary Shelley Thornton HuntFoster Brother, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complica...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be as great a favourite as the first - and "Wit and Humo...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1850-1899'I ought to tell you that I read with sincere admiration your very dignified paper on sculptors.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Living English Sculptors'Print: Serial / periodical


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