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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
 
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley ...William Cobbett Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her ...Kate Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1900-1945'My dear Miss Sorabji My husband & I were so distressed at the sad news contained in our paper today that I cannot refrain from sending you a few lines of sincere sympat...Sybill Roffes Theodore Leighton Pennell Print: Book
1850-1899'My dear Mother, Many thanks for your last kind letter. I am very much better […]. My book is almost through the press.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing ...Alexander Kinglake Margaret OliphantThe Lover and his LassPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa...Leslie Stephen Chauncey WrightPhilosophical DiscussionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear people, I shall tell you as soon as I am able to come over: and I can say no more. How can I? I hope it will be very soon, but it cannot be immediately. I did no...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella and Thomas Stevenson[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India unde...Valentine Chirol Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in th...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-dig...Charles Dickens Charles RossThe Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowl...Unknown
1800-1849'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on the one hand by labour and on the other by pain; for ...S.J. Pratt Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Dear Sir, As you have long since ceased to be ?a colt? in the periodical paddock, you will not be surprised at my not having been able to find room in the next No. f...Charles Dickens Thomas GaspeyThe Grand JurorManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'Lord Brougham George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this fr...Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseNew PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly, to review with a batch of others from Unwin, & fee...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradThe Nigger of the NarcissusPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was r...Colonel Moncrieff George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as by the manner of its writing.'Joseph Conrad Zofia Kossak-SzczuckaPozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Remi...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dearest I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter, which I found lying for me, has distracted my thoug...Jane Baillie Welsh Mrs MontaguLetter dated 20 JulyManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining Letters as you have lately sent! - Such a description...Jane Austen Fanny KnightLettersManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'My dearest Jack I read the "C[ountry H[ouse]" with perfectly unalloyed delight. [...] I can only say it came to me in book form with a freshness, with a force, with an a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Country HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowski made little impression upon this routine, though t...Vera Brittain George EliotRomolaUnknown


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