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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'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Edward du BoisSt. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth a...Print: Book
1800-1849''Thursday Oct. 6th. [...] Read a little of Political Justice [...] Dine at six [...] After dinner [Shelley] reads part of St Godwin aloud -- terrible nonsense [...] Re...Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward du BoisSt Godwin: A Tale of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, a...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:] 'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of Torquato Tasso], which is very pretty.'Elizabeth Carter Edward Fairfax Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey.
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1900-1945		''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ...John Masefield Edward Fitzgerald Print: Book
1850-1899In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the deligh...Henry James Edward FitzgeraldLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'.Lawrence Durrell Edward Fitzgerald[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".'John Ruskin Edward FitzgeraldRubaiyat of Omar KhayyamPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House Feb 27 1931
R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
6 The subject of the evening Persian Art wa...		Charles E. Stansfield Edward FitzGeraldRubaiyat of Omar KhayyamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary English writers: the theological works of Cardinal ...John Ellingham Brooks Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the play ["The Feud"] which reached me today and as you may imagine was read at once.' Hence follow a page of praise, including a comparison with the middle p...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe FeudPrint: playscript
1900-1945'Dear Edward Garnett, (For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.)...' Arnold Bennett Edward Garnettreview of 'The Old Wives' Tale'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.' Arnold Bennett Edward Garnettintroductions to novels by TurgenevPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettAn Imagined WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907: 'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think it wonderful, and unlike anything I have read before...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GarnettA Censored Play: The Breaking PointPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your article on [Icelandic] Sagas first rate and extracts quoted are good. I quite see how one could get dramas out of that.' Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Icelandic Sagas Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or th...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Breaking PointPrint: unclear whether MS or printed playscript
1900-1945'It was ever so good of you to have sent me the Hogarth little book. I knew practically nothing of the man and I was glad to learn.' Hence follow 13 lines of praise.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettHogarthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Phew! This [ "The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc" ] is fine. Just one word as the curtain falls for the last time.[...]. I'll with your leave keep the MS for 3 days before I read...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Trial of Jeanne d'Arc Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I hadn't turned over the 3rd page when I let out a whistle of respectful admiration.' Hence follows a page of praise with one minor reservation.Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettLords and MastersPrint: playscript
1900-1945'You have succeeded so well in effacing your personality in that little book ["Tolstoy: A Study"] ( and very interesting it is too) that but for an occasional turn of phr...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTolstoy: A Study (also catalogued as Tolstoy: His ...Print: Book


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