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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'If one may judge from the young men and women in their twenties who call here - one must accept that exceptionally few of them have any interest in serious or solid read...Joseph Conrad[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'If one read at all one was soon noticed. I lay in bed one night with a book I had bought at Smith's. They had a shop near our hut in Catterick Camp. It was S. R. Crocket...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Smugglers: The Odyssey of Zipporah KattiPrint: Book
1900-1945'If possible send me an amusing book small enough to be put in a large pocket. That is to say smaller than a Prayer-book and much smaller than a Hymn Book and much ...Maurice Baring Arnold BennettClayhangerPrint: Book
1800-1849'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron'If That High World' OR Hebrew MelodiesUnknown
1900-1945'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distinctly stuff...Francis Warrington Dawson Francis Warrington DawsonThe SinManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the new...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly [n/a]Philanthropist, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'If thou wast by mys side my love...' [transcript of poem] 'Hebers Journal'Emma Bowly Reginald HerberNarrative of a journey through the upper ProvincesUnknown
1900-1945'If we had telephonic communication I would call you up and hear me thump my chest and cry mea culpa for not having written to him [Ford Madox Ford] about the [Henry] Jam...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Henry James:A Critical StudyPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and re...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[article in Edinburgh Courant]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'If you don't know already it may interest you to know that in Anatole France's last book ["Sur la pierre blanche"] there are two allusions to you.' Hence follow eleven...Joseph Conrad Anatole France Sur la pierre blanchePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of ...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth HarrisFrom Oxford to RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'If you have heard no news lately from the south, it will be fresh intelligence for you that Lawson had a call to Selkirk, which as I learn from this day's newspaper (aft...Thomas Carlyle [newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many pieces among those you published in your youth which are...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron[juvenile poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend it to you as a fine disturbing book'. Arnold Bennett Havergall BatesThe Believing BishopPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.' Charles Darwin John Frederick William HerschelPreliminary discourse on the study of natural phil...Print: Book
1850-1899'If you like it try the "Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole. That is the best stilted romance style I know. "Well may the blood" says an expiring viscount to a peasan...Sir Walter Raleigh Horace WalpoleCastle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence after leaving Teneriffe.? My feelings amount to admi...Charles Darwin Alexander von HumboldtunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Crawford, Lord LindsayLives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses ...Print: Book


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