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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
 
1700-1799To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I dislike satire in general, but this appears to me one...Elizabeth Smith John RobinsonIlluminatiPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival scene in the Wesleyan Methodist chapel, which is to ...Arnold Bennett Harold FredericIllumination, or, The damnation of Theron WarePrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Honore de BalzacIllusions perduesPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...		Charlotte Brontë Honore de BalzacIllusions PerduesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and insertions, by readers: "'I almost ridiculed the idea ...Thomas Frognall Dibdin Illustrated ChattertonPrint: Book
1850-1899'In "Illustrated London News" and "Graphic", both for August 12th, are notices of ”Virginibus Puerique”. In the latter I am once more taken for my editor! I think I have ...Robert Louis Stevenson Illustrated London NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'They [parents] subscribed to magazines which I read. Picture Post was one. And the Illustrated London News and the Tatler and I used to chop the...Hilary Spalding Illustrated London NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Hedley took [me to] Reading Room and changed book and read Times and Illustrated News.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Illustrated London NewsPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1850-1899'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodical, controverts some statements made in "Broadfoot's ...S.P. Oliver Illustrated Naval and Military MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the Eng...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Illustrated [?]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I had tea at C.R.A. ... and then back to the château where we are now installed. Our room is immense and very cold but it is a fine place to be in ... The mess very comf...Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson IllustrationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies (postmarked 9 April 1816): 'Your obliging Present [new book of poems] reached me yesterday ... I read the volume through immediately: ...William Wordsworth R. P. GilliesIllustrations of a Poetical Character, in six Tale...Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799'Began to copy out of Lodge's "Illustrations", the lives of the 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th Earls of Shrewsbury; the book contains chiefly letters to and from the 4 great charac...Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the account of the Earls of Shrewsbury.'Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began to draw out of Lodge, the monument of George 4th Earl of Shrewsbury.'Joseph Hunter Edmund LodgeIllustrations of British HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899Ditto marks under the words: 'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough'. Also, 'part of' is written before the title 'Lectures on the Creed'.Sarah Good Elizabeth WordsworthIllustrations of the CreedPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. Account of the Excu...

Rosamund Wallis Ann BridgeIllyrian SpringPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Walter Savage LandorImaginary Conversations Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks Walter PaterImaginary PortraitsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844: 'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, .. in addition to all former causes of gratitude, .....Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntImagination and FancyPrint: Book


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