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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
 
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the poi...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonShops and HousesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite. Conjugal unpleasantness became so acute on the point...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonOn the StaircasePrint: Book
1700-1799'I should have told you, in the first place, that the Eastern manners give us a great light into many Scripture passages, that appear odd to us, their phrases being commo...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I should have written to you to-day to thank you for your flattering and kind-hearted mention of myself in the new Preface to Rookwood; if the weather had been finer I i...Charles Dickens William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1800-1849'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a p...James Hogg Susan Edmonstone FerrierMarriagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a p...James Hogg Susan Edmonstone FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I should like to have three more copies of the poem, if you will kindly send them. I give sparingly—to those only who are able to appreciate good poetry, and you ...William Henry Hudson Lascelles AbercrombieThe Sale of Saint Thomas [The First Act of a Play ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonWreckerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'Margaret Oliphant Rudyard KiplingNaulakhaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like, by the way, to hear more about my father's lecture; was it much on the same rails as the Good Words article?'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevenson'British Storms' in Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin an... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'Eleanor Anne Porden SismondiLiterature du Midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1900-1945'I simply had to tell you having been impressed by seeing for the first time in my life a work of imagination acting upon an average sensibility with the personal, myster...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyStrifeManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesman and Nation, the Times Literary Supplement (which ...Cyril Lionel Robert James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1900-1945'I slept most of the morning, and in the afternoon I lay in the sun and read copies of the Calcutta "Statesman " four months old, that Auden had brought for wrapping up g...Eric Shipton Calcutta StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'Robert Louis Stevenson George Campbell, 8th Duke of ArgyllThe Reign of LawPrint: Book
1800-1849'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of m...Sydney Smith [unknown][evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]Print: Unknown


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