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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
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary YongeThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab...Gwen Raverat Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's general correspondence with the close attention of a...Henry James Gustave FlaubertcorrespondencePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had criticized but read with lively interest."Henry James Edmund GossebiographiesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He opposed truncation. 'One has the vague sense of omission...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is extraordinarily keen and delicate and able [...] On...Henry James Mrs Everard CotesHis Honour and a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particular masterpiece entitled "The Time Machine", after I h...Henry James H. G. WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Katherine Prescott WormeleyMS notes to Balzac's LettersManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Katherine Prescott WormeleyPreface [on Balzac]Print: proof
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Honore de BalzacUn Roman d'AmourPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Honore de BalzacLettres a l'EtrangerePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming ...Henry James Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson[book on Greek history]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson read H[enry]J[ames]'s story "Covering...Johnston Forbes-Robertson Henry James"Covering End"Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Charlotte [Mew] [...] was a passionate reader of Thomas Hardy'.Charlotte Mew Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of fiction, George Moore's A Mummer's wife [title in italics...Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.'Arnold Bennett George MooreA Mummer's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Ralph Waldo EmersonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Nathaniel HawthorneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Ambrose BierceunknownPrint: Book


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