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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'Read "Esther Waters" which I though excellent — so direct and simple — and "La Seconde Vie de Michel Teissier" which interested me. Prosperous journey &mdash...Gertrude Bell Edouard RodLa Seconde Vie de Michel TeissierPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'Joseph Conrad Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts Unknown
1900-1945'I am sorry to say Sir E. [Eldon Gorst, British Agent and Consul General] has been rather bad this last week: a touch of the sun it is thought. I play the piano to him of...Ronald Storrs Edward Gibbon?The Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set...James Murray Edward BellamyLooking Backward: 2000-1887Print: Book
1900-1945'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the pr...Joseph Stamper Edward BellamyLooking BackwardsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I perceive you mention "Looking Backwards". I write to save your life. Don't DON'T DON'T read that most ... [ellipsis in original] of shockers. I bough...Ernest Dowson Edward BellamyLooking Backward: 2000-1887Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward BrerewoodA Second Treatise of the SabbathPrint: Book
1800-1849' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerEugene AramPrint: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when they came out - [Now] If you were very good and wish...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerGodolphinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great ...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerNight & MorningPrint: Book
1800-1849Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.'Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.'William Makepeace Thackeray Edward Bulwer Lytton Print: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Edward Bulwer LyttonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Edward Bulwer LyttonnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-rea...Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Bulwer LyttonZanoniPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.George Eliot Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book


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