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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'The Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most striking novels — not plays, though it's more of a play than anything else of his — I ever read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas HeywoodA Woman Killed with KindnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat...Sir Walter Scott Maria Edgeworth[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat...Sir Walter Scott Susan Ferrier[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, no...Mary Bacon unknownunknownPrint: Advertisement
1800-1849'The Wordsworths were reading the Morning Chronicle during the 1800s. It was the source of ... the recipe for croup medicine ... entered in the Commonplace Book.'Wordsworth Family anon[Recipe for croup medicine]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad George TomlineMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William...Print: Book
1900-1945'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad Robert Bontine Cunninghame GrahamHis People and Other Tales and SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad Etienne-Denis PasquierHistoire de mon temps: mémoires du chancelier Pasq...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Maxime Du CampunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet CampanMémoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertCorrespondencesPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Benjamin Constant de RebecqueunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Karoline BauerPosthumous Memoirs: From the GermanPrint: Book
1900-1945'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Horace George Montagu Rumbold, 9th Baronet Recollections of a Diplomatist AND/OR Further Rec...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Benjamin FranklinMemoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Frank...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...Joseph Conrad Wilmot John Eardley Eardley (ed)Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, e...Print: Book
1850-1899'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] sat in the grandfather's chair,his back to the window, beside the fireplace, reading, his manuscript held up to the light: Conrad sat forwar...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) and Joseph ConradRomanceManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young public men and lawyers [...] Grote caught the infectio...George Grote Jeremy BenthamworksPrint: Book
1700-1799'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read ...Frances Burney Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an Opium Eater" he discovered Wordsworth'.John Masefield Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book


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