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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'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first an...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the volumes you sent me I was much more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation.'
[Hence follows another page and a half of com...		Joseph Conrad Marcel ProustSwann's Way (Du coté de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the way of reading, I have been taking a course of "Poems and Ballads", which, with the exception of the "Coign of a cliff" I had almost forgotten. It is rather ple...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads, Second SeriesPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which I read with great delight: there is a great deale o...John Aubrey Inigo JonesStonehenge RestoredPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was always habit in our family to read aloud every evening.'Thomas Babbington Macaulay Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i....William Windham [n/a]AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies Christopher Marlowe Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Shakespeare[works not reproduced in schoolbooks]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...William Henry Davies William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ...[Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1850-1899'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett OuidaunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart from work for his law examinations; though he admits t...Arnold Bennett Emile ZolaunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'In this caprice, if I may call it so, I think that my Father had before him the fine republican example of "Sandford and Merton", some parts of which book he admired ext...Philip Gosse Thomas DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which...James Boswell Charles Churchill[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In this depreciation [by Johnson] of Churchill's poetry I could not agree with him. It is very true that the greatest part of it is upon the topicks of the day, on which...James Boswell Charles ChurchillProphecy of Famine, The. A Scots PastoralPrint: Book
1700-1799'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a dispute of considerable length with Johnson, who, as u...Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de CamoensLusiadsPrint: Book


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