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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
 
1850-1899"Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel tha...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyMiss GrantPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull...Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons]Print: Book
1850-1899"I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to re...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellPictures from AppledorePrint: Book
1850-1899"I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but...Leslie Stephen Omar Khayyam Print: Book
1850-1899'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'King Kalakava Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po...Robert Bridges Heinrich Heinelyric poetryPrint: Unknown
1850-1899George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.'George Gissing George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end th...Thomas Hardy Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1850-1899Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully...Thomas Hardy Stephen PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899" ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a doz...Charles Kingsley Charlotte M. YongeHeartseasePrint: Book
1850-1899'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the no...Mrs Humphry Ward Mary Augusta WardRobert Elsmere
1850-1899'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.'Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry ShorthouseJohn Inglesant
1850-1899'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of...Janet Courtney J. Henry ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print: Unknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi...William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print: Book
1850-1899' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'William Ewart Gladstone Mrs Humphry WardThe History of David GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899"Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser...Leslie Stephen John MorleyOn CompromisePrint: Book
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th...Leslie Stephen W E GladstoneRitualism and RitualPrint: Serial / periodical


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