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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 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato's republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley William WordsworthPeter Bell: a tale in versePrint: Book
1850-1899'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o...John Masefield George du MaurierPeter IbbetsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea...Florence Reynolds James BarriePeter PanPrint: Book
1900-1945[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal...Lucy Maud Montgomery Beatrix PotterPeter RabbitPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading such a splendid book in German, by a man called Chamisso "Peter Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschichte" (The Amazing Adventures of Peter Schlemihl). It is ...Clive Staples Lewis Adelbert von ChamissoPeter Schlemihls Wundersame GeschichtePrint: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Frederick MarryatPeter SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Frederick MarryatPeter SimplePrint: Book
1800-1849'Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk was written by [J. G.] Lockhart, aided probably by one or more [...] clever young advocates [...] Sophia probably knew who its author was...Charlotte Sophia Scott J. G. LockhartPeter's Letters to his KinsfolkUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Sophia Scott to Miss Millar (former governess), 5 July 1819: 'I would advise you to read a new book, which will be out soon called Peter's Letters to his Ki...Walter Scott J. G. LockhartPeter's Letters to his KinsfolkUnknown
1900-1945'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came. But I daresay you were confident. And with reason....Joseph Conrad (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture Peter's MotherPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read...Henry James Alphonse DaudetPetite ParoissePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington reproduces her poem 'The Petition of the Birds', written for her fiance] This little poetical Essay met with more Applause than it really merited, on Account...Matthew Pilkington Laetitia Van LewenPetition of the Birds, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'And yet I am going to send you a book that was written altogether in the spirit of that place. I send it however, because it is just one of those specimens of consummate...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits poemes en prosePrint: Book
1850-1899'[?] I could not [?] pay the postage for the book. [?] The book, you will receive shortly. Do not run away with the idea that I think it specially commendable. Only I th...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaudelairePetits Poemes en ProsePrint: Book
1800-1849'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'.Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Anne Louise Germaine de Stael HolsteinPetits RomansPrint: Book
1800-1849Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak.John Horrocks Ainsworth Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished Peveril of the Peak.John Horrocks Ainsworth Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be better or it will be the last. There is I see Flibbertig...Sydney Smith Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'.[Lady] Grey Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read, and I can yet form no judgement, only I am indignan...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book


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