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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"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 Matthew ArnoldReview of Objections to Literature and DogmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel."Leslie Stephen [Novel]Print: Book
1850-1899We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance."Leslie Stephen Sir Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Poet at the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1850-1899"I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo...Leslie Stephen George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Lowell Print: Book
1850-1899"If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I...Leslie Stephen George SandLes maitres SonneursPrint: Book
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyHospital SonnetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet...Leslie Stephen William Ernest HenleyChildren: Private WardPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899" It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, pre...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMuch Ado about NothingPrint: Book
1850-1899" It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast....Edmund Gosse BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899" But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to...Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in ...Edmund Gosse Ben Jonson Print: Book
1850-1899" But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899" When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i...Edmund Gosse Christopher MarloweHero and LeanderPrint: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more...Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-1899" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me."Edmund Gosse John Keats Print: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h...Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen MabPrint: Book


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