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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'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams. [...] 'Wedn...Claire Clairmont William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.' Claire Clairmont Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] June 11th. [...] Read Quarterly Review.' Claire Clairmont Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] June 27th. [...] Read Edinburg [sic] Review.' ...Claire Clairmont Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth HarrisonMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth Rowe[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conve...Emma Darwin Henry Morton StanleyIn Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so much time & energy in learning it. I hope it wasn?t ...Benjamin Britten [reviews]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you extremely for your kind present of Doyle's clever "Bird's-eye Views of Society", which have already been highly approved of in this their new form by my daught...Marianne, 'Meta' and Julia GaskellRichard DoyleBird's-eye Views of SocietyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for "Punch" and all the letters of the last few days [...]. I send you a copy of today's "Statesman" since you care to read my stuff. If when you come up...William Henry Hudson Thomas HardyA Changed Man, the Waiting Supper and Other Tales:...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'.William Godwin Lady Caroline LambGraham HamiltonManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying myself with Tasso's Aminta- 'Jane Baillie Welsh Torquato TassoAmintaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It is impossible not to be amused - impossible not occ...Dr Milman Mary Russell MitfordCromwellManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett Charles ShawWhen I was a ChildPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett United MethodistPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, b...Margaret Oliphant The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me the comedy. I found it [...] interesting and greatly entertaining, which however did not prevent me from taking your work quite seriously.'Joseph Conrad Bruno WinawerKsiega Hioba (The Book of Job)Print: playscript
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense, but I do get tired of the perpetual pillow fights....Edith Sitwell Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler)The Young and the EvilPrint: Book


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