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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
 
1700-1799Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Erasmus Darwin, "The Botanic Garden"] [...] This is only...Horace Walpole Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (part 1)Print: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I have just read, are delicious, and make me quite anxiou...Mary Berry Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)Print: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] They are the only ones I have [italics]seen[end ital...Elizabeth Barrett Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden, a PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all these sensations in a twentieth part of the time I wro...Robert Southey Erasmus DarwinZoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...George Gordon Lord Byron Erasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...Lord and Lady ByronErasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Muriel Stevens Eric GillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'"This Above All", Eric Knight. Believe me I lived and smelt through that book all the horrors of nights and days of bombing and Dunkirk conveys and putrid dressings and ...Eric KnightThis Above AllPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG was in last year on the wireless.' [NB "The Great ...Hilary Spalding Eric LinklaterGreat Ship, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleEric Linklater[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook Free spirit liable to possession or obsession... Debauchery is the most frozen isolation to which man can condemn hi...Antonia White Eric Siepmann[notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Row ? and rowed about it.'Winifred Agnes Moore Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western FrontPrint: Book
1900-1945'The" River of Cathay" is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' Joseph Conrad Ernest DawsonThe River of Cathay Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Ernest de SelincourtDorothy WordsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'.Arnold Bennett Ernest DupuyLes Grand Maitres de la litterature russePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize fighters by age thirteen, "but I could not have named th...Vernon Scannell Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was very good).'Ernest HemingwayFor whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ernest HemingwaySun Also Rises, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and other words, and on effects of 'the world' upon stro...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book


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