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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
 
1850-1899'What do you think of the "Gadfly"? I wrote what I thought to P. [presumably Sydney Pawling of Heinemann] who rejoined gallantly. But it comes to this, if his point of vi...Joseph Conrad E.(Ethel) L.(Lilian) VoynichThe GadflyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein," in his volume of poems "A Highland Regiment", which...Vera Brittain E.A. MackintoshCha Till Maccruimein Print: Book
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to like it from the notice in the Athenaeum. The Bombay Q...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell E.B. Eastwick ['ed']Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman...Print: Book
1600-1699'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'Samuel Pepys E.C. DavilaStoria delle guerre civile di FranciaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through his review in "The Nation" ] two books of which one (...Joseph Conrad E.F. WedgwoodThe Shadow of a TitanPrint: Book
1900-1945'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it i...Katherine Mansfield E.F. BensonSheavesPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding E.F. BensonMiss MappPrint: Book
1900-1945'Went out for a short time before lunch. Read "Sheaves". Washed my hair.'Verena Vera Pennefather E.F. BensonSheavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything very particular, but it began to hold me soon afterwar...Arnold Bennett E.H. AnstrutherThe Farm ServantPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828: 'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics] the Parriana yet. I have been extremely amused by...Elizabeth Barrett E.H. BarkerParriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, col...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 February 1829, thanking him for forwarding parcel containing E. H. Barker's edition of Cicero's Catilinian Orations: 'I was mu...Elizabeth Barrett E.H. Barker (ed.)Cicero's Catilinian OrationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were read by other members. Mr Edminson read a paper on t...Alfred Rawlings E.H. PlumptreCommedia and Canzoniere of Dante AlighieriPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding E.M. AlmedingenFrossiaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and reserves'.Henry James E.M. De Vogüé Jean d'AgrevePrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent morning shopping and in Pub. Library. Got 2 lovely books and read "Lottie Dundass" all afternoon and "Provincial Lady in America" in evening.'Hilary Spalding E.M. DelafieldProvincial Lady in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding E.M. DelafieldDiary of a Provincial LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any fur...Katherine Mansfield E.M. ForsterHoward's EndPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spender cut his tobacco allowance down to one pipeful a day in order to take with him Tolstoy's "War and Peace" and Forster's "A Passage to India". These were a great bo...Members of Shaksgam ExpeditionE.M. ForsterA Passage to IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus".'Elizabeth Bowen E.M. ForsterCelestial Omnibus, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he never wants choice of good words, and Lockhart had got ...Walter Scott E.T.A. HoffmanThe Devil's ElixirsPrint: Book


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