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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‘There is an excellent article in this week Saturday Westminster, a paper of which I am very fond. It is a review by Walter de la Mare, and is that poet’s confession ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Julian GrenfellInto BattlePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Best wishes for the book's career begun yesterday—wasn't it?'Joseph Conrad Richard CurleInto the East: Notes on Burma and MalayaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle John KeillIntroductio ad veram physicamPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsIntroduction to DantePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owne...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinIntroduction to Notes on Turner drawingsPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses Rupert Brooke's pencilled notes, "clearly made out on a single reading," in copy of Raymond Macdonald Alden, Introduction to Poetry for Students o...Rupert Brooke Raymond Macdonald AldenIntroduction to Poetry for Students of English Lit...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy in transcribing ... For William [Wordsworth] she has ...Sara Hutchinson William WordsworthIntroduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmo...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" (...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryIntroduction to The Comparative View of Social Lif...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, I was much surprised and more hurt to find it in a c...William Wordsworth Lindley MurrayIntroduction to the English ReaderPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...'Thomas Green Johann David MichaelisIntroduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wiliam GiffordIntroduction to The Plays of Philip MassingerPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confounded dry one'.Adam Sedgwick Issac de BeasobreIntroduction to the reading of the Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry of Creation" by Dr Ellis."Albert Battiscombe Charles TomlinsonIntroduction to the Study of Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammatic style, but more especially when I am actively bus...Donald William Alers Hankey Brooke Foss WestcottIntroduction to the Study of the GospelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.' Arnold Bennett Edward Garnettintroductions to novels by TurgenevPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have probably seen Henry’s book on Homer. It is wonderfully clever, does him much credit. I thoroughly sympathize, (hang the word it’s always intruding) with his a...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson ColeridgeIntroductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Po...Print: Book
1800-1849'I attended the first meeting of the Philathelic Society - There were many new members, but the society seemed to have undergone no improvement. Jamie Thompson still spe...Thomas Carlyle Thomas IrvingIntroductory AddressPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I read Freud's "Introductory Lectures".'Sigmund FreudIntroductory LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Sigmund FreudIntroductory Lectures on Psycho-AnalysisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was seriously alarmed at the beginning of this enquiry [into the memory of smells] by reading in McCosh: "When the organs of taste and smell, supposed by Ferrier...William Henry Hudson James McCoshIntuitions of the Mind Inductively InvestigatedPrint: Book


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