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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'I send you three translations of a bit of Horace, in order to hear what you think of the last measure.'Robert Louis Stevenson HoraceBook II Ode IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best'James Hogg Robert Southey[possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, ...George Ticknor Dr. ChanningSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, ...George Ticknor Catharine M SedgwickHopePrint: Book
1900-1945'I sent about a fortnight ago, three of your papers to Austin Harrison [...] the present editor of the E[nglish] R[eview]. [...] The "[The]Headland of Minerva" and the "...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Caves of Siren Land (and 2 other pieces cited ...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very c...Mary Shelley Ida Grafin Hahn-HahnGrafin FaustineManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I sent you Nina - & a Novel of the Countess Hahn by Miss R - [Ramsbottom] her best I believe - I am reading another now that I do not like so well - Fau[s]tina is very c...Mary Shelley Ida Grafin Hahn-Hahn[a novel]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and g...Joseph Banks Rene Augustin Constantin de RennevilleA collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch Ea...Print: Book
1900-1945'I shall have, however, to give up reading your works at dinner, for they are too disturbing. I can't explain, I'll have to explain verbally some day. Unless you can gu...Vita Sackville-West Virginia WoolfunknownUnknown
1850-1899'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1900-1945'I shall never speak to Squire again. I never read anything like it for sheer idiocy.'Vita Sackville-West J.C. SquireThe ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1787", there...James Boswell Robert Burrowes[Essay on Johnson's style]Print: Book
1800-1849'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two m...Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1700-1799'I shall transcribe some Verses of Doctor Burney's on the same unworthy Subject [herself]; on which Verses Johnson made this remark when he saw them. These says he are so...Samuel Johnson Charles Burney[poem about Mrs Thrale]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward[poem on Lichfield]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...Samuel Johnson Anna Seward'Elegy on Captain Cook'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I shewed him some verses on Lichfield by Miss Seward, which I had that day received from her, and had the pleasure to hear him approve of them. He confirmed to me the tr...James Boswell Anna Seward[poem on Lichfield]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure...Clive Staples Lewis John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should be sorry the saying were verified in him So wise and young they say never live long.'Walter Scott William ShakespeareRichard IIIUnknown
1850-1899'I should have known your article at any rate; thank you for it, it was very nice to read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of 'An Inland Voyage'Print: Serial / periodical


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