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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'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set it down as the greatest within my knowledge." ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sir F[rank Swettenham] lent me two of his books to read: "Unaddressed Letters" and "Malay Sketches".[...] Excellent dinner [on board Dutch ship] with funny Dutch peas an...Gertrude Bell Flora Annie SteelOn the Face of the WatersPrint: Book
1850-1899Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'.Rose Macaulay Thomas a KempisOn The Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was but about twenty-two years of age when I first began to read them, and I assure you, my friend, that they made a very deep and lasting impression in my mind. By re...James Lackington PlatoOn the immortality of the soulPrint: Book
1800-1849Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grateful to her. I have been reading it this morning. ...Elizabeth Barrett ChanningOn the importance & means of a national LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anything yet of hers.'Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestOn the LakeUnknown
1800-1849'Shortly after its first appearance in Hayley's Life and Posthumous Writings of Cowper (1803), Lamb copied ... out ['On the Loss of the Royal George'] in a letter to W[or...Charles Lamb William CowperOn the Loss of the Royal GeorgePrint: Book
1900-1945I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astonishing skill and verve, but too diffuse by far in its movem...Arnold Bennett Aldous HuxleyOn the MarginPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

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4. The subject of the eveni...		Cyril Langford John RuskinOn the Nature of GothicPrint: Book
1800-1849'it is very eloquent & I wish the Tories would promote him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Shergold BooneOn the Need of Christianity to CitiesPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical...Print: Book
1700-1799'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading".'Anna Larpent Joseph PriestleyOn the origin of governmentPrint: Book
1700-1799'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading.'John Larpent Joseph PriestleyOn the origin of governmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Species" - a queer jumble of thoughts'.George Gissing Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him by his own desire'.Alfred Tennyson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder brother] that I had not read a line of his [Darwin's] work, that with the exception of Draper's "History of Civili...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1800-1849'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking him for the book itself, one might say "...Harriet Martineau Charles DarwinOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selec...Print: Book


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