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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"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Anquetil du PerronZend AvestaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Caspar Hauser - its being an invention takes from the interest - if it were true it wd be a deeply exciting work - It reminds me much of Calderon's La Vida ...Mary Shelley Anselm von FeurbachCaspar HauserPrint: 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 Anthony ArmstrongTen Minute AlibiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read both of your novels with pleasure and admiration for the handling—particularly the one about the castle which I have lent to an appreciative American so that I ...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramThey Came to the CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have now read—but indeed I did a week or so ago—"Men Adrift" with a great deal of pleasure —pleasure because it was fun reading it and being able to think that you ha...Ford Madox Ford Anthony BertramMen AdriftPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Anthony Collins Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of the voluptuousness, intrigues, and abandoned profligac...Thomas Green Anthony HamiltonMemoires de la Vie du Comte de GramontPrint: Book
1800-1849'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'Mary Shelley Anthony HamiltonM?moires de la vie du Comte de GrammontPrint: Book
1800-1849'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala'Mary Shelley Anthony HamiltonMemoirs of the Life of the Count de GrammontPrint: Book
1900-1945A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness took him."George Otto Trevelyan Anthony HopeThe Dolly dialoguesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...Gertrude Bell Anthony HopeSimon Dale Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope.
Heaven on earth incline your head to move in charity Rest in Providence + turn upon the poles of truth.
What is love. Madne...		William Thomas Anthony HopeSimon DalePrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. Betting in Holland 10:1 that War will be over this year.'William Thomas Anthony HopeThe Prisoner of ZendaPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am thoroughly persuaded that the only motive the author ...Thomas Turner Anthony HorneckThe great law of consideration; or, a discourse, w...Print: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh...Margaret Oliphant Anthony TrollopeCaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora Thompson Anthony Trollope Print: Book
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1900-1945		'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.'Cardinal John Henry Newman Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature...Henry James Anthony TrollopeAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War."'James Matthew Barrie Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book
'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyo...Sir Walter Raleigh Anthony TrollopeunknownPrint: Book


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