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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'We were allowed to see two German papers—the "Kölnische Zeitung" and the "Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger." These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in t...Ian Vivian Kölnische ZeitungPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I send you back "L'Etape" — I don't think Bourget is well suited to the character of a writer of tracts.' Gertrude Bell Paul BourgetL' EtapePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun the Adone - & like it' [letter to Maria Gisborne]Mary Shelley Giambattista MarinoL'AdonePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday May 20th. Read L'Adulatore, di Goldoni.'Claire Clairmont Carlo GoldoniL'AdulatorePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: '"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been reading, and think it very beautiful, yet very sad; a...Alfred Tennyson Sully PrudhommeL'AgoniePrint: Unknown
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1800-1849		'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi...Samuel Bamford John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I have been beside him ever since tea running the heel of...Dorothy and William WordsworthJohn MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in ...Mr Perry John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...] Not long after he was gone, I read both pieces in ...Harriet Martineau John MiltonL'AllegroPrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Germaine de StaelL'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Sir Uvedale Price Germaine de StaelL'Allemagne (vol.3)Print: Book
1800-1849Sir Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 29 March 1814: 'Since I wrote to you last, I have read "L'Allemagne," not in the usual way of reading, [italics]car je ne commencais pas,...Sir Uvedale Price Germaine de StaelL'Allemagne (vols 1-3)Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Mme Augustine BulteauL'Ame des AnglaisPrint: Book
1700-1799'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'Agathe Wynne [unknown]L'Ami des EnfantsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830]Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronL'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans AilesUnknown
1800-1849'Read Il tre Melerancie of Gozzi'Mary Shelley Carlo GozziL'amore delle tre melerancePrint: Book
1700-1799'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.'Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisL'amour maternellePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two ...Claire Clairmont MoliereL'Amour MedecinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despotic shape but exercised with the geatest discretion'.Sydney Smith Antoine BeauvilliersL'Art de CuisinerPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments on which include: 'He realises that experience is v...Edward Morgan Forster Nicolas BoileauL'Art PoetiquePrint: Book


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