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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
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable clevern...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine GorePreferment: or, My Uncle the EarlPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] John LubbockPrehistoric TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.' Charles Darwin John Frederick William HerschelPreliminary discourse on the study of natural phil...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary Discourse to the Koran" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone George SalePreliminary discourse to the KoranPrint: Book
1800-1849The book seems to have been used in an educational context, probably at home. Pencilled crosses, dates and slash marks in the margins and within the text at regular inter...Olive Heath anonPreliminary lessons on the history of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William WordsworthPrelude, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud to them untiringly -- it must be what went deepest an...Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street schoolAlice MeynellPreludesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I consider myself highly privileged by the possession of an inscribed copy of the limited edition of the "Preludes"; and thanking you for the beauty and music therein co...Joseph Conrad John DrinkwaterPreludes, 1921-1922Print: Book
1850-1899[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to ...Joseph Conrad Israel ZangwillPremier and the PainterPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written on 15 December 1906 by Miss [E.] Wordsworth , ...Elizabeth Wordsworth Elizabeth Missing SewellPreparation for the Holy CommunionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Frank's notes on F., and I am quite delighted with them. The picture is so minute and exact that it is like a written photograph, and so full of tend...Emma Darwin Francis DarwinPreparatory notes to 'The Life and Letters of Char...Manuscript: Preparatory notes for 'The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin', edited by Francis Darwin.
1900-1945'Read Noel Coward's Present Indicative . . . very interesting.'Vere Hodgson Noel CowardPresent IndicativePrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent the morning reading Father's Iron and Steel address and watching the camp being pitched and correcting my German [see additional information] proofs. After lunch w...Gertrude Bell Hugh BellPresidential AddressPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Edward Gibbonpresumably Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I admit, then, that I read and admired "The Immoralist" all of two years ago. Davray gave it to me. I have not said anything but someone has filched my copy; and I wante...Joseph Conrad André GidePrétextes (OR Nouveaux prétextes) Print: Book
1900-1945'Bonar Law told him that "his sister had been a very great admirer", but that since this book she had "done with" him.'Miss Law Arnold BennettPretty Lady, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, si...Hartley Coleridge Sara ColeridgePretty Lessons in Verse for Good ChildrenPrint: Book
1900-1945'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read since the War broke out.' Henry James Arnold BennettPrice of Love, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book


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