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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'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the Catacombs. Marianne & Meta always write the names o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinion in words that g...Joseph Conrad Mercure de France Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hysterical transports of some public organs for the sim...Joseph Conrad newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising advance. I've just finished reading it having waited...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'.George Crabbe [Romances]Print: Book
1900-1945'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminiscences. . .'Arnold Bennett National NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see in reviews.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace a treat, an event.' Hence follows a short comment...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's Magazine.Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'Virginia Woolf The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for M...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [of a controversy between Liberals and Clericals] brea...Mary Augusta Ward Civilta CattolicaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me perceive the enormous intellectual pre-eminence of New...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1900-1945'The review [in the "Spectator"] is good is it not.The "Speaker" also reviewed me the same week--Whig and Tory. That is also a good review. Upon the whole the "Press" is ...Joseph Conrad Spectator and various newspapers and periodicalsPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845: 'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Athenaeum of today.'Harriet Martineau The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.'George Crabbe [Novels and poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis...George Crabbe [Latin medical books]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the Materia Medica, & made some progress in Botany; I dis...George Crabbe [botany books]Print: Book
1700-1799'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticisms, I have recourse for Information: sad Information...George Crabbe [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whatever he may think, I am a very middling, wellish-dispos...George Crabbe Scotish Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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