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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
 
1700-1799'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> obliterated by water]Sydney Smith CleryJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'Fanny Trollope unknownjournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Frie...Benjamin Robert Haydon Benjamin Robert HaydonjournalManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made me reflect that I haven't an inner life. She read me a passage [of her diary...Ottoline Morrell Ottoline MorrelljournalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825: 'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner at Lord Liverpool's in Combe Wood [...] During di...John Wilson Croker Camille DesmoulinsjournalUnknown
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 Andre GideJournalPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I have read a good deal of Lavator's journal and have felt sympathy with him. I like the book as it reminds me of my duty'Elizabeth Gurney LavatorJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but courage failed me ... Since, I have read my journal t...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Reading over the adjoining note, on Gibbon's death, today, leaves me with a sense of inhumanity.'William Soutar William SoutarjournalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these wor...Harriet Countess Granville Madame CampanJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the rising of Parliament [on 7 September 1880] the Schreibers were free to go abroad once more. On this occasion they made Cologne their first stopping-place. The eve...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberSamuel PepysJournalPrint: Book
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'[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly recalls the feelings and conduct evidenced by those ext...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottJournal (extracts)Print: Book
1700-1799'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal Amoureux'. She pronounced best and I translated best....James Boswell and Louisa [anon.]Journal AmoureuxPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the...Henry James William Jamesjournal articles on psychologyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...] home & read Delacroix journals; about whiich I ...Virginia Woolf Eugene DelacroixJournal de Eugene DelacroixPrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Gaspard GourgaudJournal de Ste. Hélène 1815-1818Print: Book
1800-1849'6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France i...Amelia Opie VariousJournal des DebatsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book


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