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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'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcib...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Little Tour in FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning, ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,n...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightness, I have for a moment been able to forget the passa...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe OutcryPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Small Boy and OthersPrint: Book
1900-1945'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualities that make his novels admirable.]'Joseph Conrad Henry JamesNotes of a Son and BrotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rose 7.15 and seem to have spent day writing, going on with Henry James's "Ambassadors", finishing "Britling", but most of all sleeping.'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bed 10.30, nearing end of wonderful "Ambassadors".'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to fifnish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other H...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesEmbarrassmentsPrint: Book
1900-1945'But having time to write up this, with a letter or so, to finish the amazing "Ambassadors", as well as "Embarrassments" (I and III especially good) the unusual "Other Ho...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe Other HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesWashington SquarePrint: Book
1900-1945'For my own War reading I found, as the popularity of "The Times Broadsheets" proved, that the essential was, remoteness from actuality. Henry James, by his sublime irrel...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Henry JamesUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Henry JamesMadonna of the FuturePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Henry JamesThe Spoils of PoyntonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Henry JamesThe Wings of the DovePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Henry JamesThe Turn of the ScrewPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Henry James[short stories]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of paternity, the other day in reading Father's reply t...Henry James Henry James Sr"reply to a 'Swedenborgian'"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Swedenborgian letters, which I had already seen and I ...Henry James Henry James Srarticles on SwedenborgPrint: Serial / periodical


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