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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
 
1850-1899'The Warsaw Review (the one where 3 years ago I've read translations of Tennyson) asks me to translate myself.'Joseph Conrad Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read Sir A. Lyall's "Essays", thanks to you! and reread them for they are so so good that I can't tear myself away from them. I want you to read one or two on religion...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?Asiatic studies: religious and social : being a s...Print: Book
1900-1945'It rained all the afternoon. I finished "L'Etape" and began Sir A Lyall's "English in India" and was rather bored and cold.' Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?The Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in...Print: Book
1900-1945'I stayed with Sir Alfred Lyall for a couple of days on my way north [to Middleborough]. He gave me the proofs of his life of Lord Dufferin to read which was rather inter...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. LyallThe life of the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava. Manuscript: Sheet, proofs
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Alfred [Lyall] whose verse and prose appeal strongly t...Joseph Conrad Alfred Comyn Lyall Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Alfred de Musset[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Alfred de VignyChattertonPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma...Ralph Finn Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin Alfred Edward Housman[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to several established writers whom he had hitherto neg...Wilfred Owen Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had been "following parallel trenches all our lives" and ...Siegfried Sassoon Alfred Edward Housman Print: Book
1900-1945'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been definitely exploited in his previous two collections; an...William Soutar Alfred Edward HousmanMore PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Alfred Lord TennysonPrincess, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher Alfred Lord Tennyson[A poem, or extract from a poem, relating to bees]
1850-1899'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o...John Masefield Alfred Louis Charles de Musset Print: Book
1900-1945'Brigadier General Sir Charles Crewe ... came in to inspect the Hospital. The General was so nice. He had diligently read up the literature on Uganda, Bp. Tucker's book, ...Charles Preston Crewe Alfred Robert TuckerAfrican Sketches, or, Uganda and the Way ThitherPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show de...Francis Palgrave Alfred Russel WallaceContributions to the Theory of Natural SelectionPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Da...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Russel WallaceDarwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural ...Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of...Walter S. Rowntree Alfred Russel WallaceMy Life; A Record of Events and Opinions. Print: Book
1900-1945'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Wallace's life from the autobiography reading a number of...Elizabeth Ann Smith Alfred Russel Wallace[psychical writings]Print: Book


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