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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		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Robert Browning[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a major disappointment: she tho...Edith Sitwell Elizabeth Barrett BrowningSonnets from the PortuguesePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translati...Edith Sitwell Charles BaudelaireLes fleurs du malPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Morris[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell John Keats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell Percy Bysshe Shelley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her own rapt readings of Swinburne, William Morris, Sha...Edith Sitwell William Butler Yeats[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [....Lytton Strachey Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale)Anecdotes of the Late Doctor JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I came up against Sir Thomas Browne, & found I hadn't...Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrowneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][Story of Perseus]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Harrison CadyJungle JinksPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe Last of the MohicansPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe DeerslayerPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You have promised me to read these stories and I would recommend you to begin with "The Last of the Mohicans"-- then go on with "Deerslayer" and end with the "Prairie". ...Joseph Conrad James Fenimore CooperThe PrairiePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'To L[eonard]W[oolf], the philistinism of [George Macaulay] Trevelyan and his friends was epitomised by their dislike of the Elizabethan dramatist John Webster, whose Duc...The 'X' SocietyJohn WebsterThe Duchess of MalfiPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicised me [...] In or outside Chartres you can find every...Edward Morgan Forster Joris-Karl HuysmansLa CathedralePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911: 'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether it is something to have the novels of Hardy with you...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HardynovelsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-1-28) though my former criticism stands [i.e. that i...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 m...George Otto Trevelyan Conyers MiddletonThe life and letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book


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