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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
 
1900-1945I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. When I took the job on it was clearly understood tha...Arnold Bennett Louis Golding Day of AtonementPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir,...Samuel Johnson Martin Martin Description of the Western Isles of Scotland Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley Pedro Calderon de la Barca El Purgatorio de San PatricioPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.' Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Pol...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The MassPrint: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Maria Heny Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Englan...Print: Book
1900-1945'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' Arnold Bennett Fr Graz in Die ZeitPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from...Henry Marriage Wallis John Keats Isabella; or, The Pot of BasilPrint: Book
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Patrick Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'I find I have no time for reading except times of fatigue when I wish merely to refresh myself. O − and I read over again for this purpose − Flaubert?s "Ten...Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave Flaubert La Tentation de Saint Antoine.Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s bitterest pain / To love – to be beloved again'.Catherine Austen Letitia Elizabeth Landon L’Improvisatrice Unknown
1800-1849'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite English. She was particularly amused at the Margravine...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and most incomprehensible trash imaginable, two or three ...Matthew Lewis Mary Wells Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; o...Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate different aspects of him and these were interspersed ...Charles Stansfield William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream, APrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey William Collins Ode to EveningPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] Xenophon observes, in his "Treatise of Oeconomy", that if every thing be kept in a certain place, when any thing is worn out or consumed...Samuel Johnson Xenophon OeconomicusPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

...		Reginald H. Robson Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
1800-1849'Read Sterne's Sentimental Journey'Mary Shelley Laurence Sterne Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Michael Foster Textbook of PhysiologyPrint: Book


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