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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: '[Matthew] Lewis's poetry is contemptible — except the Water King — & Alonzo & Imogine — of which the story ...Robert Southey Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerFiesco; or the Genoese Conspiracy: A Tragedy Print: Book
1700-1799'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have eithe...Laetitia Pilkington Patrick DelanyFifteen Sermons upon Social DutiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Did not Virgil mean by his Epithet [italics] Puniceis [end italics] to Rosetis in the fifth Eclogue the rose of Tyrian Dye! The [italics] Punic [end italics] or Damask R...Mrs Thrale and Dr Johnson Virgilfifth EcloguePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Talbot Baines ReedFifth Form at St Dominic'sPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francis BeaumontFifty Comedies and TragediesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number of wounded.' Arnold Bennett FigaroPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden R. M. BallantyneFighting the Flames: A Tale of the London Fire Bri...Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the wei...Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury. (One never misses these things.) Equally of cours...Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reached me yesterday. I sat up with it of course. There ...Joseph Conrad Arthur SymonsFigures of Several CenturiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Filippo of Alfieri'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriFilippoPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of glibness.'Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonFinal Edition, an Informal AutobiographyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 October 1838: 'I did not receive Finden immediately. I had desired Papa to unpack & take possession of it -- because I ...Elizabeth Barrett Findens' Tableaux of the Affections: A Series of P...Print: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen James JoyceFinnegan's WakePrint: Book
1850-1899'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Russell LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]

2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire B...		Reginald H. Robson Hilaire BellocFirst and LastPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Lambia, 33 Conisboro Avenue 19.5.39
R. H. Robson in the chair.
[...]

2. R. H. Robson gave an introductory sketch of Hilaire B...		Reginald H. Robson Hilaire BellocFirst and LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'George Eliot [pseud] W. Kingdom CliffordFirst and Last Castrophe, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, when I have digested it I shall give you my ideas. The...Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsFirst and Last ThingsPrint: Book


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