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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
1900-1945		Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page references) on the half-title page. Presented to Ve...Vernon Lee Benedetto CroceEstetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguist...Print: Book
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that oc...Virginia Woolf Benedict Nicolsonletter to Virginia WoolfManuscript: Letter
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't docked 2/- from your £ for it: an undistinguished little...Edward Morgan Forster Benedict SpinozaEthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de SpinozaEthicsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benedictus de SpinozaBenedicti de Spinoza opera quae supersunt omniaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dec. Not finished.'Sarah Good Benjamim DisraeliTancredPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1900-1945'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.' Arnold Bennett Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Anne Romilly Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Mr Whishaw Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Benjamin Constant de RebecqueunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you ever read Alroy by Disraeli?' [includes quotations from Alroy].Robert Louis Stevenson Benjamin DisraeilAlroy: a RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Benjamin Disraeli Print: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Benjamin DisraeliunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899"'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, ...A. C. Tait Benjamin DisraeliEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli], in order to lie do...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book


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