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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 want to thank you at once for the book you have been good enough to send me.It is of course of the greatest interest and secures my personal sympathy by the kindly att...Joseph Conrad Harold WaldoStash of the Marsh CountyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I wanted to have sent you a translation of the epigram Flahaut has introduced in her book. It is Johnson's...'Sarah Harriet Burney Adelaide Filleul, Countess de FlahautEugenie et MathildePrint: Book
1850-1899'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, long before I had the slightest suspicion it was yours...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duc...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully good--and true. Thanks to you both.'Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Desperate Character and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.Harriet Martineau John William KayeLife and Correspondence of... Sir John Malcolm, Th...Print: Book
1800-1849'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'.Harriet Martineau Robert SoutheySelections from the Letters of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wanted to write to you about Your book [...] you know how paralysed one is sometimes-- and then we had talked--I had tried to talk of the book so many times that it se...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Villa RubeinPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt Hibbert's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt English ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt CriterionPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the Faerie Queene, because of his cloth, and he...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Edmond SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behav... [n/a][Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was also much struck with many parts of the Bible. My favourite chapters were the xv. of the 1 Ep. of Corinthians; the xi of Hebrews; Ezekiel's vision; and most of t...John Leatherland [n/a] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged almost thirteen] had made myself miserable, after read...Elizabeth Sewell Biblical story of JephthahPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg Allan Cunningham[imitations of Ossian]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...James Hogg R.H. CromekRemains Of Nithsdale And Galloway SongPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a rich garden overrun with rampant weeds. he was like...Mr Morrison Allan Cunningham'Mermaid of Galloway, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: — "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Car...Donald Brown Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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