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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 hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise of marriage party.'John Ruskin George SandMademoiselle de MerquemPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry KingsleyMademoiselle MathildePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandMademoiselle MerquemPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... James Losh reported in his diary for 4 Sept 1800 that Madoc "is ready for publication ... Southey showed me about two years ago two books of this poem which I admir...James Losh Robert SoutheyMadocManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & thos...Lady Caroline Lamb Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condescending t...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most strongly of all. So Annabella waded through Madoc. ...Anne Isabella Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Excursion & Madoc.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'M Read Madoc all morning.'Mary Godwin Robert SoutheyMadoc: a poemPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Henry JamesMadonna of the FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924: 'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hands en route for a reviewer last week, and it looked s...Leonard Woolf John ClareMadrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems wr...Print: Book
1850-1899'The Monthly Cricket ... Summed; good reading, best I've seen as a whole; shaky on the pictures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Stevenson's Monthly Cricket.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of advice from the 'Maga. of Health, 1836', beginning, 'Beware of studying, reading or straining t... Magazine of HealthPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of the Athenaeum Club where I have been reading all the m...Henry James magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re...Henry James magazines and newspapersPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magazines she compiled a scrapbook of them, and frequentl...Speranza Wilde Oscar WildeMagdalen WalksUnknown
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Stephen CraneMaggie, together with George's Mother and The Blue...Print: Book
Charles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"...Miss Garvice Stephen CraneMaggie: A Girl of the StreetsPrint: Book


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