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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 see the Nineteenth Century has a full list each month of its articles and contributors, which is put in the windows and on the counters of the booksellers.' Oscar Wilde Nineteenth CenturyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, although your anthology and my second, and third(forthco...Edith Sitwell John HaywardNineteenth Century Poetry - An AnthologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose (Methuens, 1907).' Arnold Bennett Mrs Laurence BinyonNineteenth Century ProsePrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved


[...]

4. The Subje...

H. B. Lawson Victor HugoNinety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize)Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1850-1899'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read...Alfred Tennyson LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1800-1849[Whewell read Babbage, and was concerned that it had been his own Bridgewater which had stimulated Babbage to write one]William Whewell Charles BabbageNinth Bridgewater TreatisePrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, April 6, 1832: "I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little interest to my mind"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarNinth Olympian OdePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days later I agreed to write the notice, and subsequently ...Vera Brittain Storm JamesonNo Time Like the PresentPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assem...Catherine Talbot Bodmer Johann JakobNoah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purchased to day.'John Buckley Castieau John WilsonNoctes AmbrosianaePrint: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read through Aurus Gellius: but observed the contents of t...George Otto Trevelyan Aulus GelliusNoctes atticaePrint: Book
1900-1945'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . And I left off "Wuthering Heights" in order to read it...Arnold Bennett Frank SwinnertonNocturnePrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889, concerning period following Easter 1888] 'In order to save her eyes, which now increasingly troubled ... Nollekens and his TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'When I was a bit older he read to me from Edward Lear's "Nonsense Songs and Stories". "Mr Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" and "The Old Man from the Kingdom ...Joseph Conrad Edward LearNonsense Songs and StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Victor HugoNore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)Print: Book
1900-1945'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.'H WilliamsonNorfolk FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!'Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellNorth and SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Following this Miss Stevens showed us some pictures of Mrs...Alfred Rawlings Elizabeth GaskellNorth and SouthPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 30 September 1854:

'We all know that it is not precisely advantageous to a really good book to be published piecemea...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellNorth and South (instalment)Print: Serial / periodical


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