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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
 
1900-1945'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article in one of the numbers on the republication of Mrs A...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general eff...Leslie Stephen VariousSaturday Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'How like you the gallant city of London? is it not an overgrown monster devouring its own children? a large sink of f...Robert Southey John DonneSatyre IIPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 September - 14 October, 1796: 'I wish I could give you a satisfactory answer to a very interesting question. I ardently w...Robert Southey John DonneSatyre IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849'read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book... in the evening read Louvet's memoirs'.Mary Godwin PetroniusSatyriconPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett Petronius SatyriconPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'Mary Shelley Vittorio AlfieriSaulPrint: Book
1800-1849'On 18 April 1807, C[oleridge] told Sotheby: "I read yesterday in a large company, where W. Wordsworth was present, about 150 lines of your Saul, respecting your countr...Samuel Taylor Coleridge William SothebySaul, a PoemUnknown
1800-1849' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came ...Anne Lister Theodore HookSayings and DoingsPrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday 21 February 1828: 'Last night after dinner I rested from my work and read third part of Sayings and Doings, which shows great knowledge of life in a certain s...Walter Scott Theodore HookSayings and Doings (third series)Print: Book
1900-1945'This has been a very uneventful week and I have nothing much to add to my letter to Father, except that I've read "Sayonara" and think it excellent.' Gertrude Bell John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-GwatkinSayonaraPrint: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walt...Antonia White Walter HyltonScala Perfectionis, or Ladder of PerfectionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book Club [anon. member of XII Book Club]Scandalous Affair, AManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I was just about to write to you on the "Dole " articles. They are wonderfully the right thing: matter, tone, attitude, interest.[...] Jessie is lost in admiration.'Joseph Conrad Richard CurleScandals of the DolePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Rafael SabatiniScaramouchePrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde StendhalScarlet and BlackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud...Elizabeth Bowen Emmuska, Baroness OrczyScarlet Pimpernel, ThePrint: Book


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