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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
 
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Alexandre Dumas and Auguste MaquetLe Batard de MauleonPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.' [also records reading latter text in journal entries for 23 November...Claire Clairmont Alexandre Joseph Pierre de SegurLes Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.' ...Claire Clairmont Alexandre L. B. RobineauJerome Pointu: ComediePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias"John Ruskin Alexandre ` DumasLa Dame aux CaméliasPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition' (Paris : Felix...Vernon Lee Alexis BertrandLa psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contempo...Print: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September written: 'Reading this August: Souvenirs de Tocquev...Virginia Woolf Alexis de TocquevilleSouvenirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for misprints!' Arnold Bennett Alexis Saint-L?ger L?gerElogesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Alexis François RioDe la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans s...Print: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Alfred AdlerPractice and Theory of Individual PsychologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5.Vernon Lee Alfred BinetLes r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le ...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout.Vernon Lee Alfred BinetLa psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rim...Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred de Musset Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: '"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been reading, and think it very beautiful, yet very sad; a...Alfred Tennyson Alfred de Mussetpoems including 'Tristesse'Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'.Harriet Martineau Alfred de VignyCinq MarsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Alfred de Vigny Print: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, Browning read us your letter, a capital one [...] ...Robert Browning Alfred Domettletter to Robert BrowningManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalized to discover that he was also corresponding with th...John Betjeman Alfred Douglas Print: Book
1900-1945'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell...V.W. Garratt Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book
1900-1945'[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot...Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson'The Lotus Eaters'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Alfred Lord Tennyson Print: Book


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