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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'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesSydney Smith[Letters]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesJames Boswellprobably Life of JohnsonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam WhewellHistory of the Inductive SciencesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHomer OdysseyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t...George Eliot and G.H. LewesHeinrich HeineReisebilderPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I b...George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has high...Henry James Jules VallesJacques VingtrasPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw...Henry James Visitors' booksManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American...Henry James American newspaper telegramsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William Jamesarticle on "Brute and Human Intellect"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ......Henry James William JamesarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I tho...Henry James Henry JamesDaisy MillerPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer del...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Lady of the AroostookPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer. I have howeve...Henry James Henry James Sr[book]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they shocked me very much when I saw it in print, and they w...Henry James Henry Jamesreview of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-BeuvePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the subject fruitful, and I suspect that much of the publi...Henry James Wiliam Dean HowellsThe Undiscovered CountryPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing ...Henry James unknown[extracted texts]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered, which I immediately read with greater comfort and c...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Undiscovered CountryPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he h...Robert Browning Robert BrowningpoemsUnknown
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..."Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper


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