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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'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the "Life of Macklin" without having finished the v...Joseph Hunter James Thomas KirkmanMemoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin EsqPrint: Book
1850-1899'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in them just now. Punch had a cartoon representing Macph...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It certainly is a grievous pity that Shakespeare filled Romeo and Juliet with those appalling rhymes. But the worst thing in the play is old Capulet's preposterous spe...Clive Staples Lewis William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1850-1899'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scot...Print: Book
1900-1945'It does my heart good — I, who have been so deeply distressed by the tone of the newspapers since my return from France — to hear the soldiers reading them w...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmaster living in a back street in our native town to gi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St MatthewMatthew 2:1Print: Book
1700-1799'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appearance of rejoicing at Sheffield. [He cites lack of cov...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to ...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'It has most glaring faults as a historical style, but in spite of its obscurity, barbaric whirl of words, & the still graver charge of a certain indifferentism or fatali...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1700-1799'It has of late been the fashion to compare the style of Addison and Johnson, and to depreciate, I think very unjustly, the style of Addison as nerveless and feeble, beca...James Boswell Joseph Addison[essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It has the same talent as Emaux et Camees and no other.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theophile GautierEmaux et CameesPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smothered by small coal and slack. Miss V. is sitting over ...Miss V [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ...Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?]review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les pr...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ...Thomas Carlyle Pierre Simon LaplaceEssai philosophique sur les probabilitesPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Felicia Hemans[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is a most delightful lecture and most judiciously illustrated, if a mind so uncultivated as mine dares express an opinion.' Hence follows a page of appreciative comm...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinConcentration in English PoetryPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'it is a novel of really great power & very strong interest, rather of a painful kind, a very pure and high strain of sentiment, with now & then to much of Puseyite tende...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a very clear, agreeably-written narrative and though often partial & one-sided, in a good spirit on the whole & with enlightened views'.G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Robert SoutheyThe Book of the ChurchPrint: Book


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