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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
 
1850-189919 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho.Henry James Alphonse DaudetSaphoPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read...Henry James Alphonse DaudetSaphoPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guido Sorelli of the German Grillparzer ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Franz GrillparzerSapphoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by reading her very strange history as related by her bi...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beas...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approved
[...]
5 The subject of John Masefield...		Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldSard HarkerPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magn...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronSardanapalusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatural by some [goes on to quote letter from Hobhouse to...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronSardanapalusManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'read Sardanapalus'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronSardanapalus, a TragedyUnknown
1900-1945'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman...V.W. Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I threw the book across the room. I felt I should never...Robert Blatchford Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times be...James Keir Hardie Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o...Elizabeth Bryson Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise...Patrick McGill Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from "Sartor Resartus".'Lucy Harrison Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny copy of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". Arriving at th...Thomas Okey Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies neares...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle &...Pattie Stansfield Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle &...Walter Rowntree Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book


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