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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841: 'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the sense of snow & long evenings from your invalid [i.e....Elizabeth Barrett Robert Montgomery BirdNick of the Woods: A Story of KentuckyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read journey to the World Underground'Mary Shelley Ludwig HolbergNicolai Klimii Iter subterraneumPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the arcadia & the world underground'Mary Shelley Ludwig HolbergNicolai Klimii Iter subterraneumPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote Aristotle Nicomachean EthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of...the Νικομάχεια Ἠθικὰ of ...Hartley Coleridge AristotleNicomachean EthicsPrint: Book, university set text
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away from working-class subjects (to which he never retu...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenNiels lyhnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing J.P. JacobsenNiels LyhnePrint: Book
1900-1945'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be very precious I understand as a first edition. Will ...Winifred Agnes Moore Carl Van VechtenNigger HeavenPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors close/ To gather round an aching breast/ The curtain...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] MontgomeryNightPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great ...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerNight & MorningPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this...Katherine Mansfield Virginia WoolfNight and DayPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more...Philip Morrell Virginia WoolfNight and DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".'John Buckley Castieau Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, one by Scott, and "Night club Murder" by Brandon, an... BrandonNight club MurderPrint: Book
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 Robert Penn WarrenNight RiderManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849"It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out by watching, the landlady appealed to me to take a ...John Bedford Leno Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Mark AkensideNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked into Young's "Night Thoughts": debased throughout with many poor and puerile conceits...'Thomas Green Edward YoungNight ThoughtsPrint: Book


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