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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
 
1900-1945'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yesterday. Tonight I finish revising. Tomorrow I plunge i...Joseph Conrad Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-SimonLes Mémoires de Saint-SimonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pe...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhewellFraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorla...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland C...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cott...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'Joseph Conrad Jean FayardOxford et Margaret Print: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. So judicious, so interesting, so touching--why shouldn't I say so when I have been touched?'Joseph Conrad Henri GhéonNos DirectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the delightful little book and for the far too delightful inscription you put into it. I opened it after breakfast at the vocabulary essay and read that ag...Gertrude Bell Florence Bell?Topics for ConversationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightness, I have for a moment been able to forget the passa...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe OutcryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the magazines and books. I haven't yet dipped into the novel. I am very touched by the favourable response of the critics to the translation [of "A Set of ...Joseph Conrad Robotnik (The Worker)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for your beautiful book, which I admired with my eyes and then read with great amusement.'Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Christen AsbjorsenRound the Yule LogPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLegend of Florence, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for your green book which I have read with the greatest of interest.'Joseph Conrad Gold Coast Blue BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLa Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoulesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner and matter of your essays.'Joseph Conrad Christopher MorleyInward Ho!Print: Book, Pamphlet
1850-1899'Thank you for your prettily bound little volume which I feel sure must be interesting to all your mother's friends. There is no doubt something gracious always in the si...Oscar Wilde Rebecca SmithBrief Memorials of Departed Worth: being sketches ...Print: BookManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth C. AkersTwo SummersPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][American newspaper extracts]Print: Newspaper


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