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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'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale Francis Beaumont[Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Samuel Johnson BoethiusConsolation of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The vol. of your stories arrived while we were over in Havre [...]. Thanks, my dear fellow its a jolly good handful. Some of them I've seen before in Mags. but not many....Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyCapturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley)Seems So! A Working Class View of PoliticsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The voyage took a month.[...] We had collected all the available literature about Nanda Devi, and before long we knew the whole story off by heart. I taught Tilman w...Eric Shipton Hugo's UrduPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Warsaw Review (the one where 3 years ago I've read translations of Tennyson) asks me to translate myself.'Joseph Conrad Alfred TennysonPoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk!" and the "Sunday Express" philosopher, Nathaniel G...Vera Brittain Nathaniel Gubbinscomment in the "Sunday Express"Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich JacobiBriefe Uber SpinozaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday because I had no brain left. It wasn’t so bad in its c...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weather is perfectly ideal and it’s a country holiday to be here [i.e., picnicking in a meadow 1 mile from Talbot House]; the only things we left behind of val...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Walter BesantThe Golden ButterflyPrint: Book
1700-1799'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [n/a]GazettesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till nearly bed-time'John Buckley Castieau Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'The weekly Evensong [i.e., 22-25 Oct] has been amazing this week, averaging nearly a hundred a night. It’s rather like the last chapter of the "House of Prayer" th...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Florence ConverseThe House of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand though - That's my only criticism - you've left (I daresa...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranManuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.
1900-1945'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le ...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinSome Personal RecollectionsManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive ...Maria Edgeworth KalidasaSakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian dramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]Augusta Browne F.D. HemansThe Wings of the DoveUnknown
1800-1849'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text].Mary Groom Thomas MooreThe Wintery Smile of SorrowUnknown
1800-1849'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821''S.W.' Thomas MooreOh had we some bright little isleUnknown


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