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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
 
'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Original Composition I think, and Dr Swift's Ballad on the...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonIrene: a Historical TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Made several friends among visitors. The two who were in charge of the Women's Red Cross Branch were Irish and on finding that I too belonged to the same spot became ver...James Coffey Irish ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a ne...John Mitchel Patrick O'Donohue (editor)Irish ExilePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics]...James Hogg Thomas MooreIrish MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford DuffyIrish Songs and BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the editor is Joseph Brennan. This appears to be the true ...John Mitchel Joseph Brennan (ed)IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full o...Emma Darwin William Rathbone GregIs popular judgement in politics more just than th...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsIsabellaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October 15th. [...] Read the Isabella or Pot of Basil by Keats [quotes four lines from stanza 10].' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsIsabella, or the Pot of BasilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds me of "Dominique".' Arnold Bennett Andr GideIsabellePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itself to me, and I began to write it at once. Yet noth...Arnold Bennett André GideIsabellePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804): 'I have been reading a great deal of Italian, there are a thousand beauties in ...Lady Harriet Cavendish MetastasioIsaccoPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1900-1945'I started to read a book called "Ishtar". It's not very good but I was very vague as to who Ishtar was - apparently the Babylonian goddess of love, war and fertility. Pe...E S StevensIshtarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownIsisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day that I could put my hand on the Island Nights, which...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonIsland NightsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...members of XII Book ClubRobert Louis StevensonIsland Nights' EntertainmentsPrint: 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 Don ByrneIsland of Youth, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scenes, descriptive of bliss and woe, that it had a tend...James Hogg John WilsonIsle of Palms, and Other PoemsPrint: Book


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