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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'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ...George Eliot and G.H. LewesPierre Jean de Beranger Print: Book
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'.George Henry Lewes William Wordsworth Print: Book
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'George Henry Lewes William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'George Eliot (pseud) HoraceThe Art of Poetry an Epistle to the PisosPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.'George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. LewesJ.G. Lockhart (probably)Life of ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.'Erasmus Wilson unknown Hunger and ThirstPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".'George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critical...Henry James Barrett Wendellcritical study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yesterday; after doing which I became aware that I hadn't ...Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you. I have read them with a searc...Henry James Edward Holton Jamestwo storiesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which he has read in a copy apparently borrowed from Gosse.Henry James Pierre LouysAphrodite: moeurs antiquesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at the rate of ten pages a day -- under which even my li...Henry James Emile ZolaRomePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ort...Henry James Alphonse Daudetarticle on death of Edmond de GoncourtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which had been sent to him, 7 September 1896.Henry James Maurice BarresDu Sang, de la Volupte et de la MortPrint: Book


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