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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
 
1850-1899Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Estournelles, Alfred Lyall, and Godfrey Webb, all of us...Wilfrid Blunt and guests unknownunknownUnknown
1850-1899'[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wh...Francis Thompson The GlobePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...'Elinor Glyn George MacDonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur...R.E. Prothero International Express Train Co monthly guidePrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ...R.E. Prothero OvidTristia IVPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips." John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was...John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldUnknown
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King...John Ruskin William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1850-1899Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular.John Buchan Arnold BennettThe Man from the NorthManuscript: Sheet, proofs
1850-1899He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood.Arnold Bennett Edmund de GoncourtJournalsPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.' John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle o...John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de GenlisunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her abou...John Ruskin Lord John Russell Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next ed...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinThe Political Economy of ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899"He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCestus of AglaiaPrint: Book
1850-1899"Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899"Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinCrown of Wild OlivesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i...Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord TennysonLocksley HallPrint: Book
1850-1899The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ...M.V, Hughes anonA Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's ShowPrint: Book
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe...Constance Smedley Henry David ThoreauunknownPrint: Unknown


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