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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
 
1800-1849'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.'John Cole J SmithadvertisementPrint: Advertisement
1850-1899'Among the writers who deserve attention the first is Rudyard Kipling (his last book ,”The Day’s Work”, a novel). J.M. Barrie—a Scotsman. His last book “Sentimental T...Joseph Conrad J M BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1900-1945'After carrying out psychic research and reading reports and hypotheses by Lodge, Crookes, J.A. Findlay etc. I know to my own satisfaction that death is a mere passing on...J A FindlayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Well, it's written snappy, you see. . . . Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-they're quick...J G BrandonDeath in Downing StreetPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]'Percy Bysshe Shelley J-J BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis'Percy Bysshe Shelley J-J BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu...Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 22 December 1814: 'Mr. Hogg's Badlew (I suppose it to be his) I could not get through. There are two pretty passages; the flight of ...William Wordsworth J. H.Hunting of Badlew, a Dramatic Tale, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs'Mary Shelley J. HutchinsonMemoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to wh...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison a...Henry James J. Morleyarticle on ByronPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White J. Soames[article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole ...George Gordon, Lord Byron J. ThomsonunknownUnknown
1700-1799'I ventured to communicate to him [Dr Turnbull] Mr [italics] Walsh[end italics]'s Letter; the Doctor lifted up his Hands and Eyes to Heaven, and seem'd as much shocked by...George Turnbull J. Walsh[letter professing to be from Matthew Pilkington's...Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a man who loves "la littérature critique" (not litera...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerEgoists: A Book of SupermenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't write to thank you for the delightful volume ["The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments"] as I hoped [...] to have the pleasure of seeing yo...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerThe Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and O...Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale J. A. FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'Froude's Short Essays on Great Subjects...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J. A. FroudeShort Essays on Great SubjectsPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... she was shocked by a comment in J. A. Hobson's "The ...Margaret Cole J. A. HobsonThe Science of WealthPrint: Book
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whether eternal justice exists, immutable right & wrong...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. Symonds Unknown
1900-1945‘I’ve been reading Wells’ "What is coming …" Hazlitt’s Essays, and a glorious book of critical essays by [J.] A. K. Thompson, called "The Greek Tradition". I read no ...Wilfred Owen J. A. K. ThomsonThe Greek Tradition: Essays in the Reconstruction ...Print: Book


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