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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" But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young...Edmund Gosse William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899"I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot."Leslie Stephen Robert Bulwer-LyttonLucilePrint: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to...Edmund Gosse Robert SoutheyWorks (poetical?)Print: Book
1850-1899"But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible ...Edmund Gosse F.T PalgraveThe Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1850-1899"I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark...Leslie Stephen [biographies]Print: Book
1850-1899"I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa...Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899" He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t...Edmund Gosse Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to...Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1850-1899"The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe...Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899"Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse...Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899"The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ...Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"]Print: Book
1850-1899"I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th...Leslie Stephen The Latterday PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899"I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start."Leslie Stephen Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899"This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ...Leslie Stephen Alfred TennysonIn the Valley of the CauteretzPrint: Book
1850-1899"Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Y...Leslie Stephen John RuskinFors [Clavigera]Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Alphonse Daudet Print: Book
1850-1899"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."Leslie Stephen Plato Print: Book
1850-1899"I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly."Leslie Stephen  Print: Book
1850-1899"I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained ste...Leslie Stephen M.G. LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899"I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read...Leslie Stephen Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical


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