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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 received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'George Crabbe George CrabbeTales from the HallManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have already perused and have concluded that the Cameronian hat...James Hogg James GrahameSabbath, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I recieved yours accompanying the beautifull complimentary verses, which are judged by the small circle of my friends to be the best that ever have appeared in our langu...James Hogg Bernard Barton'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of Th...Unknown
1850-1899'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The business has given me vague flitting shapes of ideas for ...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have written originally in English.)' Arnold Bennett Laurent TailhadePoemes aristophanesquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Henry FearonNarrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Thro...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John BradburyTravels in the Interior of America in the years 18...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John PalmerJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advice, that there is something improper in the third and...Sydney Smith Jean Francois GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements d...Print: Book
1900-1945'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its best form.' Arnold Bennett New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry ...Robert Dodsley John Dryden'Ode on St Cecilia's Day'Print: Book
1700-1799'I related a dispute between Goldsmith and Mr. Robert Dodsley, one day when they and I were dining at Tom Davies's, in 1762. Goldsmith asserted, that there was no poetry ...Robert Dodsley Ibbot'Fit of the Spleen, A'Print: Book
1850-1899'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My office concluded, I strolled about, admiring the beauty...university undergraduates [n/a]Pink 'UnPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I remember once to have seen a little collection of letters and poetical scraps of Swift's, which passed between him and Mrs Van Homrigh, this same Vanessa, which the bo...Samuel Richardson Jonathan Swift[letters and poetical scraps]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I remember reading in a book called "The open Road" an extract from Hewlett's "Pan and the Young Shepherd" which I thought splendid. Thanks to our Galahad's detestable...Clive Staples Lewis Edward Verrall LucasThe Open Road, a Book for WayfarersPrint: Book
1700-1799'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'William Wordsworth Gilbert WhiteNatural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember reading with pleasure one of your books—it must have been in 1923 or four. If I have read none since it is my misfortune for no Literary organs ever come my...Ford Madox Ford Gerald BullettThe Street of the Eye and Nine Other TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard...Samuel Smiles John HomeDouglasPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard...Samuel Smiles CampbellThe Wizard's WarningPrint: Book


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