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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'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent ...Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished reading Mansfield Park, which more than ever convinces me that Jane Austen is trivial, facetious and commonplace.'James Lees-Milne Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "Mansfield Park" [Jane Austen]. Proust applied to la petite noblesse de campagne. I also read Aristotle's Ethics, feeling that it was really high time, before I...Harold Nicolson Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-18991 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [sic] now he has changed his mind as to foreseeing the...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (3rd volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [italics] extremely interesting [end italics].'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (last half of last volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Still unwell ... had in the course of the day read a good deal of "Colton's Work" with which I was very well satisfied. Concluded it after I went to bed- very well satis...Joseph Jenkinson Calvin ColtonManual for Emigrants to AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast I went to see the sick folks & then read several chapters of the bible & Testament, then did some S. Hind. P. Walker brought a can of Lobster which w...James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Manual of DevotionPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Henry FawcettManual of Political EconomyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot [pseud.] W.G. TennemanManual of the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Manuel -- out of contradiction it may be -- he likes th...Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Robert MaturinManuelUnknown
1800-1849'S. reads St Helena Manuscript'.Percy Bysshe Shelley J. Frederic Lullin de ChateauvieuxManuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnuePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus and St Helena manuscript'Mary Shelley J. Frederic Lullin de ChateauvieuxManuscrit venu de St Helene d'une maniere inconnuePrint: Book
1850-1899'Clouds blowing over which increased as the day went on and decided me not to go to the Alpe. A good deal bored. Fortunately I found "Many Cargoes" and read it.' Gertrude Bell William Wymark JacobsMany CargoesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Sarah Fieldingmany worksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'Elizabeth Edminson William Edward Hartpole LeckyMap of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and love of life -- but seems to me very nearly as irref...Henry James Hugh WalpoleMaradick at FortyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book


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