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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"Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn's". Vol. II has date of reading: "June 29 1914". Vol...George Otto Trevelyan Henry GunningReminiscences of the university, town and county ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry Hallam[perhaps The View of the State of Europe during th...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] Henry HallamThe View of the State of Europe during the Middle ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry HallamConstitutional History of England [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonHenry Hallam'History'Print: Book
1700-1799'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend. JOHNSON. "To be sure, Sir, I would have you read th...Samuel Johnson Henry HammondA Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of...Print: Book
1700-1799'... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains of his Ancestor under the Title "Nugae Antiquae", w...Frances Burney Henry HarringtonNugae AntiquaePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831: 'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Blackstone through, I also read a little treatise by a ...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Hawkins'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament'Print: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 22-24 December 1793: 'Monday morning. of last nights verses I have two things to say. the metre is that of Ph. Fletchers purple ...Robert Southey Henry HeadleySelect Beauties of Ancient English poetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I saw my book advertised in a number of the Critic as the work of one R. L. Stephenson ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Holt[Review of New Arabian Nights in Critic]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made fast to the table by many a knot and twist of small c...Fanny Rutherfurd Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made fast to the table by many a knot and twist of small c...Fanny Rutherfurd Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages an...Katherine Mansfield Henry JamesConfidencePrint: Book
1900-1945'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.'George Bernard Shaw Henry JamesThe SaloonUnknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge Henry James Print: Unknown
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus Henry James[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard Henry James[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (July 1865): "Arnold read this review and praised it to ...Matthew Arnold Henry JamesReview of Matthew Arnold, Essays in CriticismPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in separate cover: "I have been reading it to my brother...Henry James Henry JamesEugene PickeringManuscript: Unknown


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