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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
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nicola Francesco HaymNotizia de' libri rari viella lingua italianaPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to the dramatist.'Joseph Hunter Frederick ReynoldsNotoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro."Henry James Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' Gerald Moore Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Victor HugoNotre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ...John Buchan Victor-Marie HugoNotre-Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Victor HugoNotre-Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some three weeks ago, a packet of Books arrived here, accompanied with a Letter addressed A l'Auteur de l'Article intitule, Caractere de notre Epoque, the whole perfectl...Thomas Carlyle Henri de Saint-SimoneNouveau ChristianismePrint: Book
1900-1945I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I have read half of it twice, but could never get to the en...Arnold Bennett Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle AdamNouveaux Contes CruelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We arrived wet to the skin - I read nouvelle nouvelles and write my story'.Mary Godwin Mme de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Curt. finish the "noveaux novelles" de Mad. de Genlis'Mary Godwin Madame de GenlisNouveaux contes moraux et nouvelles historiquesPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Alexandre DumasNouveaux Entre'actesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak .....Henry James Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveNouveaux lundisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I have known a number of your friends, and of course I ...Arnold Bennett Andre GideNouveaux Pr?textesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant....Samuel Pepys Antoine FuretiereNouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers tro...Print: Book
1850-1899'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'John Ruskin TopfferNouvelles GenevoisesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Ludwig Von HardenbergNovalis Schriften (Vol I of 2)Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.'Claire Clairmont Belfegor da MachiavelliNovella piacevolissimaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentine life by T.A. Trollope. I am also reading Sachetti'...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: Book


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