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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
 
1850-1899'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill done either.'Robert Louis Stevenson L G SilbergleitRobert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic...Francis Wemyss Mostyn John ArmstrongScotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Sco...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotatio...John Drummond Erskine Niccolo MachiavelliThe works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of stat...Print: Book
1900-1945I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculous. I am sending you a copy of 'Polite Farces' by thi...Arnold Bennett Philip GibbsRealities of WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William] James ever wrote it's most suggestive and interest...Joseph Conrad William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Junius" The Letters of JuniusPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m...Robert Peel 'a member of the Ursuline Community at Ash' A Sketch of Irish HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker [undated], to accompany 'a collection of choice documents' on Ireland: 'The little volume called "A Sketch of Irish History" is a m...Robert Peel 'a priest at Longford' letter to parishionerManuscript: Letter
1700-1799Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had mPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over ...George Grote 'Diod.' Siculus Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon Diod. Sicul., having previously cast my eye over ...George Grote 'Diod.' Siculus Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and got through 80 pages, taking notes. He seems a more...George Grote 'Diod.' Siculus Print: Book
1850-1899'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes  Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 31 October 1850:

'I showed papa the "Paper Lantern"; he was greatly amused with it, and would like to see the whole when ...		Patrick Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850:

'Your Will o' the Wisp is a very pleasant and witty sprite, and though not venomous his pungency may be ...		Charlotte Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' (pseud.) A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book
1700-1799Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading through your plays again. You are "très fait" as the French say. Tell me, had E[den] P[hillpotts] much to do with the "Angel"? It seems to me to be p...Joseph Conrad (Basil) Macdonald Hastings (and Eden Philpotts)The Angel in the HousePrint: probably an acting edition
1800-1849'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph for Brains. I have had very great pleasure in readi...Sydney Smith (ed.) Lady DacreRecollections of a ChaperonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'Sydney Smith (ed.) Mary Berry[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]Print: Book


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