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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'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, against the very bad, or very stupid, or else both, ...Robert Louis Stevenson Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de Print: Poster
1850-1899'I have been reading some French books lately viz, "Mathilde" par Eugene Sue and "Les mariages de paris" par Edmond About '-Albert Battiscombe Edmond AboutLes mariages de ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afternoon reading. ? La Faustin? (Edmond Goncourt)'. Gerald Moore Edmond GoncourtLa FaustinPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal]...Royal SocietyEdmond Halleypaper on the causes of the Noachian delugeUnknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.John Flamsteed Edmond HalleyCatalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do. Bought Ira ?Far from the Madding Crowd?. Wrote A...Gerald Moore Edmond HolmesThe Tragedy of EducationPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece of criticism...'Thomas Green Edmond MaloneAn inquiry into the authenticity of certain papersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sort...Thomas Green Edmond MaloneCritical and Miscellaneous Works of John DrydenPrint: Book
1900-1945'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again.... On his shelf was ... Edmund Rostand's [italics] Cy...Cyril Lionel Robert James Edmond RostandCyrano de BergeracPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for Cyrano. I haven't read it yet but will do so before the sun rises again.' [A week later Conrad wrote: 'Je ne suis bon qu'à lire Cyrano and such like coglione...Joseph Conrad Edmond RostandCyrano de BergeracPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was a good time in the army before I knew what a whore was. We never asked the English master when we were doing the Faerie Queene, because of his cloth, and he...Reginald Hugh Kiernan Edmond SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.' Arnold Bennett Edmond and Jules de GoncourtGerminie LacerteuxPrint: Book
1850-1899'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another novel; a study of religious mania?? la 'Madame Gervais...Arnold Bennett Edmond de GoncourtMadame GervaisaisPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Edmond de Goncourt[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Edmund BlundenUndertones of WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Edmund Blunden[war poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth...William Soutar Edmund Blunden [ed]An Anthology of War PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa...Edward Fitzgerald Edmund BurkeLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ide...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by Edmund Burke.Jeremy Bentham Edmund Burkepamphlets including Observations on a late State o...Print: Pamphlet


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