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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
 
1700-1799'Brought from the Library as a pamphlet Bunbury's "Academy for Grown Horsemen"; in some parts he is exceedingly humurous.'Joseph Hunter Henry William BunburyAn Academy for Grown HorsemenPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Henry William Weber (ed.)Tales of the East: Comprising the most Popular Rom...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, & which has been absolutely missed by all novelists ...Arnold Bennett Henry Woodd NevinsonIn the Valley of TophetPrint: Book
1900-1945'The India book is most interesting. Nevinson is a dear. What is happening now there only shows that nations as well as men may find themselves in a bitterly false positi...Joseph Conrad Henry Woodd NevinsonThe New Spirit in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the same No. [of Harper's Magazine] Nevinson has a story-- and Lord it is bad. The whole No. is so inept that I feel sick to see myself there.'Joseph Conrad Henry Woodd NevinsonSitting at a PlayPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Howard Smith Henry Woodd NevinsonBetween the WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Howard Smith Henry Woodd NevinsonBetween the WarsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W...Harriet Martineau Henry, Earl GreyThe reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the la...Print: Book
1900-1945'The "Mercure de France" notice is agreeable - and as he [Henry-Durand Davray] reproduces what I have been lately talking at him as to French fiction I am flattered.' Joseph Conrad Henry-Durand Davrayunknown Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Henryk SienkiewiczQuo VadisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... Even before my teens my reading entered upon the r...Frances Stevenson Henryk SienkiewiczQuo VadisPrint: Book
1850-1899'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she opines that I shall find it a very great treat indeed....Maria Heny Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Herbert CroftLove and Madness. A story too true. In a series of...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...Edmund Burke Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...James Boswell Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1700-1799'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discou...Samuel Johnson Herbert Croft[Family Discourses]Print: Book
1850-1899?I have waited to thank you for your book till I had read it & write now ? before having quite finished ? because I can talk best with my pen & would rather anticipate to...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherThe Medieval EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just ...Leslie Stephen Herbert FisherStudies in Napoleonic statesmanship: GermanyPrint: Book
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the first place you say you do not call The 3 paths a nov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Herbert GreyThree Paths, TheUnknown
1700-1799'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The following Song he wrote in my Praise forsooth is no...Hester Lynch Thrale Herbert Lawrence[poems]Unknown


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