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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
 
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Signs of Pain: An excuse for not accepting the Invitation of a Friend to make a Country Excurs...Edward JennerSigns of RainUnknown
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [superscript 'recited'] some parts of Sigurd the Volsung & ...Henry Marriage Wallis William MorrisSigurd the VolsungPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in chapter 10 of George Eliot, Silas Marner, which follow...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotSilas MarnerPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's journal (1871): 'July 14th. A. travelled down from London with G. H. Lewes, who took him to his house at Witley and introduced him to Mrs Lewes (...Alfred Tennyson George EliotSilas MarnerPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanSilex ScintillansPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the "Misérables" and began "Simon Dale". [...].The little Morel boy and I made paper boats and sailed them in the bath this afternoon. We passed the Northern po...Gertrude Bell Anthony HopeSimon Dale Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Simon Dale by Anthony Hope.
Heaven on earth incline your head to move in charity Rest in Providence + turn upon the poles of truth.
What is love. Madne...		William Thomas Anthony HopeSimon DalePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Walter Savage Landor, 20 April 1822: 'In your Simoneida, which I saw some years ago at Mr Southey's, I was pleased to find rather an out-of-the-way image, i...William Wordsworth Walter Savage LandorSimoneidaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth InchbaldSimple Story, APrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott childrenMaria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects b...Walter Scott Maria EdgeworthSimple SusanPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of all narratives - the story of Joseph. Was there ever ...Hugh Miller Sinbad the SailorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Of course like everybody else I was a reader of the "Singapore Free Press" which was the [underlined] paper of the East as between Rangoon and Shanghai.'Joseph Conrad Singapore Free PressPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better...Margaret Oliphant Sarah GrandSingularly DeludedPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the beginning & the end are the best.' Arnold Bennett Compton McKenzieSinister StreetPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton Mackenzie's "Sinister Street": 'I don't know what it ...Henry James Compton MackenzieSinister Street (vol 2)Print: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten...Henry James Compton MackenzieSinister Street (vol.1)Print: Book
1900-1945'The others slept while I wrote and read again with pleasure and admiration "Sinister Street, [Vol] II". A glorious promise if only that youth is not murdered in the Aege...Ronald Storrs Compton MackenzieSinister Street, vol. 2Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.'Claire Clairmont Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-FouqueSintram and his Companions: A RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Greek - Sintram - S. not well'Mary Shelley Friedrich Heinrich KarlSintram und seine GefahrtenPrint: Book


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