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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'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas John Keats Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Nathaniel Lee Print: Book
1800-1849'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bat...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books'Princess Caroline Princess of Wales  Print: Book
1800-1849'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be understood'.Charlotte Bury Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849'Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume'Charlotte Bury Miss Plumtre or Plumptre Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Metastasio [pseud.] Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Henry Newbolt Print: Book
1800-1849'[love letters represent the only subject women] 'should ever attempt to write about. Madame de Stael even I will not except from this general rule; she has done a plague...Matthew Lewis Anne Louise Germaine, marquise de Stael Holstein Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Thomas de Quincey Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December: 'I dined with Clive [Bell] to see Sickert the other night [15 December] [...] he [Sickert]'s chiselled, severe; has read: was reading Goldoni he said....Walter Sickert Goldoni Print: Book
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth...Dylan Thomas Thomas Browne Print: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for the Nobel Prize] If Mr Meredith had written nothing bu...Mary Augusta Ward Herbert Spencer Print: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this lat...Mary Augusta Ward George Meredith Print: Book
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane Austen, or Trollope or George Meredith! For this lat...William Arnold George Meredith Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harn...Mary Augusta Ward Alfred von Harnack Print: Book
1800-1849'Here is a sort of little standard library kept - Spenser, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, & a few foreign books, & we sit and read & dream our time away'Elizabeth and William Gaskell  Print: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the latter! [end italics]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Wordsworth Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryden & Pope - so now I'm all clear & straight before m...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book


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