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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'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Ver...Philip Larkin Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Verlaine[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I desired my friend Madame Belloc to use her own disc...Maria Edgeworth Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de LamartineHistoire des GirondinsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me with your compositions ... As to the Essay, etc., I am ...George Gordon Lord Byron Amadee PichotEssai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We are interrupted by M. Baxter who spends the Evening.' [also records rea...Claire Clairmont Amand Gottfried Adolph MullnerDie Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier ActenPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'George Eliot [pseud] Amans-Alexis Monteil[presumably one of his works on history of French ...Print: Book
1850-1899'George Sand, La Mare au Diable'Sarah Good Amantine Lucile Aurore DupinLa Mare au DiablePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- sup...Edward Morgan Forster Amber ReevesThe Reward of VirtuePrint: Book
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1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Ambrose BierceunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] made copies of extracts or complete texts from Philips' Collection in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... some time between 10 July 1807 and c.5 J...Dorothy Wordsworth Ambrose PhilipsCollection of Old Ballads, APrint: Book
1700-1799'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he behaved modestly, and sat silent, till upon something wh...Samuel Johnson Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius Print: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Nil [i.e., no mail]. Reading Recits d'un Soldat.'William Thomas Amédée ArchardRecits d'un SoldatPrint: Book
1700-1799'We had also that fish described by Frezier in his voyage to Spanish South America by the name of "elefant, pejegallo" or "poisson coq" which, though coarse, we made shif...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation du voyage de la Mer du Sud, aux c?tes du ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been told that this very method was proposed in the "Gentleman's Magazine" many years ago, but have not the book on board. Frezier, in his voyage to the South Se...Joseph Banks Amedee Francois FrezierRelation d'un voyage de la Mer du Sud aux cotes du...Print: Book
1850-1899'A Thousand Miles up the Nile'Sarah Good Amelia EdwardsA Thousand Miles up the NilePrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise espec...Margaret Oliphant Amelia Hutchison StirlingMonsieur le ComteManuscript: Book in MS
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing but Novels. Adeline Mowbray made us quite sick befo...Wordsworth FamilyAmelia OpieAdeline Mowbray or Mother and DaughterPrint: Book
1700-1799'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you pr...Thomas Holcroft Amelia OpieAdelaideManuscript: Play script
1800-1849?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat ...Amelia Opie Amelia Opie[her own works]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t...Amelia Opie Amelia Opieher own works as they are publishedPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a deligh...Lady Caroline Lamb Amelia OpieunknownPrint: Book


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