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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'To Selina' 'I have known thee in the sunshine/of thy beauty and thy bloom/...'Carey/Maingay groupThomas Haynes BaylyI Have Known Thee in the SunshinePrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Violet HuntI Have This to SayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and interesting and very readable and horribly convincing. I...H V MortonI James BluntPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ...William Wordsworth William SothebyI knew a gentle maidPrint: Book
1700-1799'On 6 Feb. 1827 W[ordsworth] told Sotheby: "I was gratified the other day by meeting in Mr Alaric Watt's Souvenir with a very old acquaintance, a Sonnet of yours, whch ...William Wordsworth William SothebyI knew a gentle maidUnknown
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nigh...George Eliot [pseud.] Anton Francesco DoniI MarmiPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the afternoon came Barishnikov with his daughter Alexandra.... He has lent me a book called I Married a Russian. ' [538] 'I Married a Russian has charmed us all. An...Vere Hodgson Edna Alfredivna SinelnikovaI Married a Russian: Letters from KharkovPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday April 16th. [...] Read I Piffari di Montagna a pamphlet upon the Carbonari.'Claire Clairmont anonI Piffari di montagna, ossia cenno estemporaneo su...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have done well enough lately with Montaigne, and a bit of ...Harriet Martineau Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my beginning Genesis, -- and I am now more than half wa...Elizabeth Barrett Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at first - but tires long before we get to the end of 8 ...Mary Shelley Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'Joseph Conrad Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt']I Say Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have been impressed with this awful book, called I Was Hitler's Maid. Barishnikov and Resti think it is true. Very depressing.'Vere Hodgson Pauline KohlerI Was Hitler's MaidPrint: 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 Noel CowardI'll Leave it to YouPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Peter CheyneyI'll Say She DoesPrint: Book
1900-1945'A controversial book by H. V. Morton, called: I, James Blunt, is dedicated to Wishful Thinkers who believe Britain is still an island, and that Russia will win the war...Vere Hodgson Henry Vollam MortonI, James BluntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read I, Too have lived in Arcadia, by Mrs Belloc Lowndes. All about her parents.'Vere Hodgson Marie Belloc LowndesI, Too Have Lived in Arcadia: A Record of Love and...Print: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.'Elizabeth Pepys Madame de Scud?riIbrahim, ou L'illustre BassaPrint: Book


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