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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 George SamouelleThe Entomologist's Useful CompendiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive George SandLa Mare au DiablePrint: Book
1850-1899"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I...Leslie Stephen George SandLes maitres SonneursPrint: Book
1850-1899'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti...Leslie Stephen George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb George SandHistoire de ma viePrint: Book
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter...Maud du Puy George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volu...Henry James George SandMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ...Charlotte Bronte George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1850-1899'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmitz "History of Greece", it all helps to pass away the...Albert Battiscombe George SandLa Petite FadettePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Andre Victor Amedee de Ripert-Monclar, 5-7 December 1834: 'Madame Dudevant has accomplished something it seems -- a certain "Jacques" [...] I read a...Robert Browning George SandLelia (chapter VIII)Print: Book
1850-1899?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?Robert Louis Stevenson George SandComtesse de Rudolstadt
1850-1899?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myse...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842: 'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal lately of the new French literature [...] I was c...Elizabeth Barrett George SandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842: '"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the ends of my fingers -- blush three blushes in one .. f...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLeilaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandJacquesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842: 'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] send you Leila a serpent book both for language-co...Elizabeth Barrett George SandIndianaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing F...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLes Maitres MosaistesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844: '"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] answer for [to friend seeking advice on choosing F...Elizabeth Barrett George SandLes sept cordes de la lyrePrint: Book


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