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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
 
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure pleasures of taste and beneficence, at a period of life...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was disguised as a child's book.'Benedict Nicolson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly acted like Mortals until about thirty Years old, aft...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Dorothy Brain Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In "Guns and Butter" by Bruce-Lockhart (written October 1938), he says: "To anyone who knows the East, it was already clear that, whoever won the war between Japan and C...Thomas Kitching R.H. Bruce-LockhartGuns and ButterPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was present when a tragedy was read, in which there occurred this line:-- "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free". The company having admired it muc...Samuel Johnson Henry BrookeGustavus Vasa The Deliverer Of His CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".'Vera Brittain Compton MackenzieGuy and PaulinePrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I cannot say that I was disappointed, for there is very c...William Wordsworth Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brown himself as a Modern Tom Jones ? It certainly canno...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown". One of my sisters, when an infant, was sent to the...Samuel Smiles Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so eminently original in its characters and descriptio...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.Virginia Woolf Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal arti...James Hogg Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & t...George Crabbe Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book


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