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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
 
1800-1849'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'John Ruskin Allan CunninghamLives of eminent British paintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'John Ruskin Allan Kardec [pseud.]Experimental SpritismPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of re...Joseph Conrad Allan MonkhouseA Bookman's NotesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' [...] Some day — if you permit me — I'll send you th...Joseph Conrad Allan Monkhouse Print: Book, playscript
1800-1849I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to me from not being acquainted with it.John Horrocks Ainsworth Allan RamsayThe Gentle ShepherdPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Allan Ramsay[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got a perusal of "The Life and Adventures of Sir Willia...James Hogg Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written; not only abounding with beautiful rural imagery, a...James Boswell Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Allan RamsayThe Gentle Shepherd Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Allan Ramsayunknown Print: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'.Walter Scott Allan RamsayTea-Table Miscellany: My Jo JanetUnknown
1850-1899'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally that I was much impressed by your remarkable novel...Arnold Bennett Allan Noble MonkhouseA DeliverancePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845: 'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first newspaper you sent to me, was sent in vain for the v...Elizabeth Barrett Allan Park PatonpoemPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845: 'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank you much [...] the stanzas on Kennedy's Mill road s...Elizabeth Barrett Allan Park Paton'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Allen GrantColour Sense: its Origin and Development, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read "a Welsh Witch". Wrote to Claude, Maysie and Mother.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Welsh Witch". Walked to the church to meet Miss Jenner.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am feeling in a happier frame of mind than I have been for a long time, for a letter from Nora came at tea telling me the best news that I could possibly hear, tha...Thomas Wainwright Allen RaineA Welsh Singer: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Allen TateThe Mediterranean and Other PoemsManuscript: Unknown


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