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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
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 July-2 August 1796: 'But the other ballad of Bürger in the M. Magazine is most excellent. I know no commendation equal to ...Robert Southey William TaylorLenoraPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead: 'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know t...Elizabeth Sewell BurgerLenorePrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Gottfried August BurgerLenore
1800-1849'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a beautiful copy of Burger's "Lenore", illustrated by...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Gottfried August BurgerLenorePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'The Leonidas is a very fine poem in my opinion. J. Warton says it is written with the simplici...Robert Southey Richard GloverLeonidasPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737: 'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which excellent poem I herewith return you. I am told that...Aaron Hill LeonidasUnknown
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...Thomas Carlyle Richard GloverLeonidas, A PoemPrint: Book
1900-1945'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] Yes. you can do things; you present them with a skil...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1900-1945'From that far distant day [in 1903] when (you remember?) you sent me "Leonora" it's great fundamental quality of absolutely genuine expression has been with me an unshak...Joseph Conrad Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1800-1849from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ...Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von KotzebueLeontine de BlondheimPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of Shelley's reading in early 1816. Later in the year t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Francois de Salignac de la Mothe FenelonLes Adventures de TelemaquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bernard Germain Etienne de La Ville IllonLes ages de la nature et histoire de l'espece huma...Print: Book
1900-1945'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my having to climb the great gate as B. had forgotten h...Gerald Moore Romain RollandLes AmisPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? writer I know and this book is as good as his best. I...Gerald Moore Romain RollandLes AmisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sismondi - & Faublas'Mary Shelley Jean Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayLes Amours du Chevalier de FaublasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'OrvilleLes Anecdotes GermaniquesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore Francois MauriacLes Anges NoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue 30. X. 34.
    Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.

...		Victor Alexander Jean de La FontaineLes Animaux malades de la pestePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new romance of Soulie's called "Saturnin Fichet," which is ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Frederic SoulieLes Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiratio...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847: 'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new romance of Soulie's called "Saturnin Fichet," which is ...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningFrederic SoulieLes Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiratio...Print: Newspaper


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