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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'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O. K. though the humour is hardly my line ? ?De Heiny ...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal to Stella. After supper Miss D. Brain read several ...Howard R. Smith Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 19 April 1843: 'I was at a committee this morning, when I heard a gentleman say: "My friend, Mr. Bouverie, got hold of Lady Sale'...Mr Bouverie Lady SaleJournal [of experience of retreat from Afghanistan...Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Callcott to John Murray (c.1835): 'Let me thank you for Mrs. Butler: very clever, very romantic, some excellent feelings, but (may I say) not as [italics]womanl...Lady Callcott Fanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of her residence in America]Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Dacre to John Murray, 27 May 1835: 'Thousands of thanks, dear Mr. Murray, for allowing us to read those sheets of the wonderful Fanny's "Journal" in their rough s...Lord and Lady DacreFanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of residence in America]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835: 'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen enough of it to feel that she has been most unkindly...Sir Francis B. Head Fanny Kemble ButlerJournal [of residence in America]Print: Book
1850-1899He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood.Arnold Bennett Edmund de GoncourtJournalsPrint: Book
1800-1849'...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almo...Samuel Bamford John WesleyJournalsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 23 August 1807: 'I remained in my room the whole morning reading Mr. Greathead [her host]'s Journals, which let me more into their every-day life, wh...Mary Berry Mr GreatheadJournalsUnknown
1800-1849'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low state I was, and how much I passed through, unbelief...Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth FryJournalsManuscript: Codex
1850-18994 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of h...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Lett...Henry James Eugenie de GuerinJournals and LettersPrint: Book
1850-18993 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and al...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals of c.1833Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to m...Madame de Montalembert Montalembertjournals of MontalembertManuscript: Codex
1800-1849' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote ...Harriet Martineau George GreyJournals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northw...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Lett...Henry James Maurice de GuerinJournals/LettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the EarthPrint: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for a...Harry Burton Jules VerneJourney to the Centre of the EarthPrint: Book
1700-1799'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophical views of society, and in ingenious sentiment and l...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'His "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland" is a most valuable performance. It abounds in extensive philosophical views of society, and in ingenious sentiment and l...Dr Orme Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book


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