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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 think I really read newspapers from a sense of duty to keep in touch with the news of the world. Under certain conditions I am vitally interested in the news, and I am... NewspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I like mainly, except his severe mention of the Royal F...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas Babington Macaulay[Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" i...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pi...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourUnknown
1800-1849'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it is so true and brave, that I greatly admire her.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effective play.'W.C. Macready Mary Russell MitfordRienziManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do want you to realise that intelligent people here, th...Arnold Bennett Patrick MacGillThe Great PushPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid bu...Sydney Smith Mary Berry (ed.)[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and t...Print: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'Barbara Hofland Mrs S.C. HallSketches of Irish CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues of the dead at the end of her essay, are I think ve...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Robinson MontaguAn Essay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think my introduction to the authoress of that fine book Mary Barton must be postponed.'Alfred Tennyson Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the News Chronicle. I read her - Jill Adams, I think her n...Jill AdamsNews ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Eaton Stannard BarrettSix Weeks at Long'sPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an English book, she began throwing out leading questions.'Harold Nicolson Charles LambunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas de QuinceyMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think littl...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd Humberstonearticle on Sir John GorstManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to me to be right . . . . As it stands, I think littl...Arnold Bennett Thomas Lloyd HumberstoneCoventryManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur...R.E. Prothero International Express Train Co monthly guidePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say ...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper


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