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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
 
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
1800-1849'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. "Looking into Jesus" is the titl...Elizabeth Marshall Isaac AmbroseLooking into JesusPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- "Loom and Lugger." Was quite disappointed in it. It has capital material, but is ...Harriet Martineau Harriet MartineauLoom and LuggerUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto in Lord Holland's Lope de Vega.'George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandLope de VegaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now comes a foolish reason) I had understood that he said ...Mary Russell Mitford Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of His ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it w...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much...Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronLord Byron's CorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking ma...Benjamin Newton Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord ChesterfieldLord Chesterfield's letters to his sonPrint: Book
1850-1899'June (-July with Winnie and Edith)'Sarah Good Thomas Babington MacaulayLord ClivePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h...Marjory Todd Joseph ConradLord JimPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a number of readings were given to illustrate his descri...Charles Evans and Henry Marriage WallisJoseph ConradLord JimPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John Barrow (ed.)Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a mi...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not only discuss, for he pointed out to her, "with a mi...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a very absurd one but has many most beautiful and affect...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, TheManuscript: Unknown
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his part...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very different breathings of late and some of these from hea...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...George Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solitary Perusal and came boasting, at the End of the firs...John Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book


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