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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'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sens...Susan Ferrier Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in compan...Samuel Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of ...Lady Caroline Lamb Maria EdgeworthPatronage [probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Nov. 8th. Rise at nine -- Read through the Man of Feeling who would have just suited Fanny [Godwin] for a husband [...] [Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin] dines at t...Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul and VirginiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not dou...Mary Shelley Edward George Earle Bulwer LyttonPaul CliffordPrint: Book
1700-1799'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but though I was told I would weep many tears in reading it I...Eugenia Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's Homer - finish it - read Paul et Virginie'Mary Shelley Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday October [...] 30th. [...] Read Paul & Virginia.'Claire Clairmont Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'Have you read St Pierre? if not, read that most delightful work & you will love the author...Robert Southey Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline ClivePaul FerrollPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the living, and Ellen [reader's sister] and I were sent ...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the floor of the other room was covered with Mr Heathcote...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833: 'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate copiously in the margin and sum up on the fly-leaf. ...John Stuart Mill Robert BrowningPaulinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Who put that dreadful note about me in the "Pauline"? I’m Chaplain to one battery only, and gunners don’t have forts. I wish they did! Please strafe the unknown aut...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton PaulinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the British Museum, with a Poem published in 1833, enti...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old and too wooden-headed to appreciate him as perhaps he ...Joseph Conrad Ezra PoundPavannes and DivisionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'About twenty people gathered and sat on chairs - some in meditation, others obviously praying. At first I thought this to be a preliminary ritual to the meeting, and so ... Peace NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Tell Leonard to read Harold's new book. It is more in his line than yours, being political, but I think you would be amused by some passages in his diary, which is the ...Vita Sackville-West Harold NicolsonPeacemakingUnknown


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