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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'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding always on books and fancy'.Antonia White Charles DarwinVoyage of the Beagle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.Edward Morgan Forster Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1850-1899'[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Species" - a queer jumble of thoughts'.George Gissing Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him by his own desire'.Alfred Tennyson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whilst I was abroad the proof-sheets of "the Descent of Man" were sent out to me to read.'Henrietta Litchfield Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Page proofs
1850-1899'I have been reading over his old letters. I have not many , we were so seldom apart...'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have been reading your father's letters to William which he has kept... What a blessing science was to him through all his anxieties and his bad health.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin[letters]Manuscript: Letter, Letters from Charles Darwin to his son William.
1850-1899'I am reading his [Charles Darwin's] ''Journal'' after a long interval.It gives me a sort of companionship with him which makes me feel happy- only there are so many ques...Emma Darwin Charles DarwinJournalManuscript: Journal
1800-1849'I found him in ecstasy over your husband's book. He said it was the most attractive reading he had met with; that notwithstanding his ignorance of natural history he fou...J.C.L. Sismondi Charles DarwinJournal of researches into the geology and natural...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Darwin, writing in praise of the gaucho in his “Voyage of a Naturalist” says that if a gaucho cuts your throat he does it like a gentleman - even as a small boy I...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinJournal of Researches into the Geology and Natural...Print: Book
1850-1899'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder brother] that I had not read a line of his [Darwin's] work, that with the exception of Draper's "History of Civili...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Charles Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.'Emma Darwin Charles Darwin, ed. Francis DarwinThe Life and Letters of Charles DarwinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden Charles DaweKing Edward's Realm: Story of the Making of the Em...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847: 'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [following miscarriage], & partly by being read to & p...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Charles de BernardLe Gentilhomme campagnardPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Charles de BrossesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Charles de BrossesLettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 174...Print: Book
1700-1799'Possibly that might be Cape Horn, but a fog which overcast it almost immediately after we saw it, hindered our making any material observations upon it; so that all we c...Joseph Banks Charles De BrossesHistoire des navigations aux terres australes, con...Print: Book
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Charles de Secondat, Baron MontesquieuThe Persian LettersPrint: Book


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