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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
 
1700-1799'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was contested in the Court of Session in Scotland, and Mr...Henry Dundas Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just ...Stuart Wood Frances KingsleyCharles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not give you extracts from any of Milton's specially cont...Alfred Tennyson F. D. MauriceFriendship of BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown". One of my sisters, when an infant, was sent to the...Samuel Smiles Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tow...Vera Brittain Robert BrowningChilde Roland to the Dark Tower CamePrint: Book
1900-1945'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have laid sufficient [? stress] on the positive qualities o...Arnold Bennett W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and SixpencePrint: Book
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Thomas or William Belsham[either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essa...Print: Book
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart[Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my gratitude to the amiable Jean Jacques for the pleasu...Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou la nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1850-1899'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamPreface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in MoroccoManuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages
1900-1945'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations to misprints, punctuation, points of phraseology, & s...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsMarriageManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Marriage?certainly more homogeneous?& about as good as ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book
1800-1849'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's rece...Harriot Webb Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTruth's Welcome HomePrint: proof
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettA Week in ParisManuscript: typescript
1850-1899'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of intelligence, which come, with their pleasant [italics] ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [verses]Unknown
1800-1849'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain of her treatment in it - except in the total omission...Jane Austen Walter Scott [anon]review of EmmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Carlo BottaStoria d'ItaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico Ariosto[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book


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