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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'Mrs van Doren told me yesterday that Macfee - one of her reviewers- had received a letter full of the most incredible Billingsgate from Jessie because he had mentioned m...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradJoseph Conrad as I Knew HimPrint: Book
1900-1945'To go back to your book ["Joseph Conrad: A Study"]; I know you thought highly of "Nostromo" but didn't know you placed it quite so far above the other books. The o...William Henry Hudson Richard CurleJoseph Conrad: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing attention to his whimsical nature & unpractical busines...Helen Rawlings William de MorganJoseph VancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am charmed with "Joujou". It is altogether and delightfully shocking. Where the devil did you find it? Pardon the nautical language.' Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaJoujouPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t...Edward Fitzgerald John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 23 December 1815: 'We have now nine sheets of the journal [by Captain Luff re time in Mauritius] - I do not intend to read it un...Dorothy Wordsworth Captain LuffjournalManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinary production ... I know or knew personally most of t...George Gordon Lord Byron Count D'OrsayJournalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
1800-1849From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten...Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is...S.P. Oliver PuigreJournalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie, the Civil Agent of Governor Farquhar at the court ...S.P. Oliver Jas (James) HastieJournalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and o...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'.Katherine Mansfield Dorothy WordsworthJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, ...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettJournalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was t...Thomas Carter John WesleyJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899[editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Samuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'John Cole Richard PhillipsJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever "Journal," and, as she chose to require my opinion of it, ...Harriet Martineau Fanny KembleJournalManuscript: proofs
1700-1799'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...[Mrs] Beach CleryJournalPrint: Book


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