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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
 
1800-1849'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with it that I could not help writing a letter of congra...Sydney Smith James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostagePrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you have not, can you tell whether others like it? I wa...Sarah Harriet Burney James Justinian MorierZohrab the HostageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin James Leigh Hunt (ed.)The ReflectorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Cyril Langford James Leslie MitchellHanno, or, The future of explorationPrint: Book
1900-1945'[James] Garvin used very strong words in his article in the "Observer" today, the article was headed "England's Fame or Shame" ... Got the "Times" Sunday edition, the fi...J. P. Lynch James Louis Garvin'England's Fame or Shame', in the 'Observer' (2 Au...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'A reading in parts of Barrie's "Admirable Crichton" was then given with considerable spirit & was much appreciated. The characters were read as follows [a list of 14 mem...Members of XII Book ClubJames M. BarrieAdmirable Crichton, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had read some of your Philipino [sic] stories--and was looking for more of your work. I spotted it first in the old MacClure Mag.; certainly without any help from any...Joseph Conrad James Marie HopperCaybiganPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee James Mark BaldwinMental Development in the Child and the Race: Meth...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee James Mark BaldwinSocial and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Devel...Print: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Francis Pollard James Matthew Barrie[letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have just finished Barrie's delicious book — to my great sorrow. It is a charming little work — the only pity of it is that she could not read it! 'Gertrude Bell James Matthew Barrie?Margaret Ogilvy: by her son J. M.BarriePrint: Book
1900-1945Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place which nobody has left any b...Arthur Morris James Matthew BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. Lowell[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I have got it of my "very very own" (as the children say...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellBiglow Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I do not know: we went on to Tennyson, never learning...Victor Sawdon Pritchett James Russell LowellThe Vision of Sir LaunfalPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll James Russell LowellunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Low...Constance Smedley James Russell Lowell Print: Unknown


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