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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'I am grateful to you for having told me to buy Yeats' poems, they kept me happy in the train all the way. I like the one about Leda, How can those terrified vague...Vita Sackville-West William Butler YeatsLeda and the SwanPrint: Unknown
1900-1945 'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights, and I should like you to consider this further. A...Arnold Bennett legal contractPrint: draft legal contract
1900-1945 The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish as to sign a contract entirely in favour of the other...Arnold Bennett legal contractPrint: draft legal contract
1800-1849'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLegend of Florence, APrint: Book
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg Walter PatersonLegend of Iona, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. I...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLegend of Montrose, APrint: Book
1850-1899'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonLegends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In T...Print: Book
1850-1899'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our ...Maggie Oliphant A.B. JamesonLegends of the SaintsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Frederick Locker-Lampson's recollections of Tennyson: 'Tennyson was greatly impressed by the deadly-earnest and savagery, and let me say [italics]sadness[end ital...Alfred Tennyson Jonathan SwiftLegion ClubPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christian HeinrothLehrbuch der AnthropologiePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lorenz OkenLehrbuch der NaturgeschichtePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lorenz OkenLehrbuch der NaturphilosophiePrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Campbell to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 August 1822, in response to her having asked his opinion of her narrative poem Leila: 'the poem is open to many objections -- ...Thomas Campbell Elizabeth BarrettLeilaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: '"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the ends of my fingers -- blush three blushes in one .. f...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser TytlerLeila: or, The IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'... all of us were at all times longing for news, and it was rare that we ever got any except for the German version, and that only from the local paper, all the leading...J. P. Lynch Leipziger Neueste NachrichtenPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simplon. The coming over was a great disappointment. Thic...Alfred and Emily TennysonGeorge SandLeliaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'Madame Dudevant has accomplished something it seems -- a certain "Jacques" [...] I read a...Robert Browning George SandLelia (chapter VIII)Print: Book


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