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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'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch'Mary Shelley Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle generale et particulierePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the workJohn Aikin Georges-Louis Leclerc BuffonHistoire NaturellePrint: Book
1700-1799'While botanising to-day I had the good fortune to take an animal of the opossum ("Didelphis") tribe; it was a female, and with it I took two young ones. It was not unli...Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: Book
1700-1799'The third was of the opossum kind, and much resembled that called by De Buffon "Phalanger". Of these two last I took only one individual of each. Bats here were many: ...Joseph Banks Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire naturelle, generale et particulierePrint: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de BuffonHistoire NaturellePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Georgette HeyerBlack Moth, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Georgette HeyerRoyal EscapePrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no...Georgette HeyerSpanish BridePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...Hilary Spalding Georgette Heyer[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'it is a novel of really great power & very strong interest, rather of a painful kind, a very pure and high strain of sentiment, with now & then to much of Puseyite tende...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished chiefly in bed after the House. I like it extremely; perhaps there is not quite so much power as in Ellen Middleton, but it is full of beauty & interest; one ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonGrantleyPrint: Book
1700-1799'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavouring to make the World believe it [italics] hers [end i...Hester Lynch Thrale Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireThe Sylph: a NovelPrint: Book
1700-1799'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus Boy! bring my Flow'rs and bind my Hair: I could but laugh to think how...Hester Lynch Thrale Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire[a Song]Manuscript: Unknown
'Having regretted to him that I had learnt little Greek, as is too generally the case in Scotland; that I had for a long time hardly applied at all to the study of that n...Samuel Johnson Georgii PasorisLexicon Graeco-Latinum in Iesu Christi Domini Nost...Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gerald Brenan, 3 October 1926: 'Ralph said he had read enough of your novel [A Holiday by the Sea] to perceive a masterpiece.' ...Ralph Partridge Gerald BrenanA Holiday by the SeaUnknown
1900-1945'I remember reading with pleasure one of your books—it must have been in 1923 or four. If I have read none since it is my misfortune for no Literary organs ever come my...Ford Madox Ford Gerald BullettThe Street of the Eye and Nine Other TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945

'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.


[Conrad then makes several comments indicatin...

Joseph Conrad Gerald Cumberland (pseud.)Charles Frederick KenyonTales of a Cruel CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 13 March 1828: 'I found that like the foolish virgins the servants had omitted to get oil for my lamp so I was obliged to be idle all the evening. But though...Walter Scott Gerald GriffinTales of the Munster FestivalsPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's book spun me to distraction last night. So good & sugge...Virginia Woolf Gerald HeardPain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, because, though greater than any of his generation, he w...Edward Morgan Forster Gerald HeardThe Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord...Print: Book


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