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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
 
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847: 'I hardly ever felt delight equal to that which cheered me when I received your...Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray Print: Unknown
1800-1849'for which I coin a word which will speak to myself, "epochable"'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas Arnold Print: Book
1900-1945'Your R.A.F. paper is very good [...].'Joseph Conrad Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts Unknown
1850-1899'Your last letter was very nice.'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'At last, son of night, I receive a communication […] Oh no, it is not the penny. It is the one-volume story demanded by Hueffer for the New Tarterly [sic]. It’s a...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley  Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in i...Robert Louis Stevenson John Collier Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Many thanks for the book which has given me the greatest of pleasure. I have always had a great admiration for Sir Alfred [Lyall] whose verse and prose appeal strongly t...Joseph Conrad Alfred Comyn Lyall Print: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for your Laforgue. Your introduction couldn't be more interesting as regards both matter and tone. It is very very well done. Your author's text is odd [curi...Joseph Conrad Jules Laforgue Print: Book
1900-1945'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' [...] Some day — if you permit me — I'll send you th...Joseph Conrad Allan Monkhouse Print: Book, playscript
1900-1945'Many thanks for letting me have a view of the Nelson letter which is most interesting. I appreciate very much you taking the risk of loss in order to give me that pleasu...Joseph Conrad Horatio Nelson Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'He would say he bought books to read, not to stare at their backs on a shelf while they collected dust over the years. He liked books to be well bound but it was their c...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad William Wymark Jacobs Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad Guy De Maupassant  Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad Gustave Flaubert Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad John Galsworthy Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham Print: Book
1900-1945' Most mornings he spent reading the papers until about half past ten, then answered any letters that had come [...].'Joseph Conrad  Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'If my father saw my mother, brother or myself reading a book he would cruise around and pounce on it if we put it down when we went out of the room. When we returned the...Joseph Conrad  Print: Book
1850-1899'Streets of Montargis. Boulevard (if you please) de Belles Manières; streets of the Five Bridegrooms, the Ancient Palace, the Good William, the dead, of God’s Oven...Robert Louis Stevenson  Print: Streetname plaques
1900-1945'The night before we left [Montpellier]was one of the worst I have ever spent. Joseph Conrad was still handicapped by having his right hand in bandages, the gout had twis...Joseph Conrad  


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