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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
 
1850-1899Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servitude, engaged reading by his table, having just fini...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & then your nameless novel. ...I am in a fever to fin...Arnold Bennett George Sturt[unnamed novel]Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I had a lot of material for them in hand I was a little...Arnold Bennett 'Par Un Initie'Mysteres des Sciences OccultesPrint: Book
1850-1899'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little paper", but which I should like, for the good of lit...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Courting UmbrellaManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'There is a nice little bit of poetry about that in an old number of Good Words.' Robert Louis Stevenson Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed young man named L. F. H. S. was charged before the Lord ...anon [n/a]Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded works, but from casual glances into one or two of the...Arnold Bennett Mrs. Humphry WardThe Story of Bessie CottrellPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the author of this book evidently knows his character in...Arnold Bennett C.E. FrancisEvery Day's NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My book reviews find considerable favour. The eclectic Chapman has much encouraged me by the statement that he reads no criticism which he likes better.'Frederic Chapman Arnold BennettreviewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its subtlety and restraint prevent it from ever being rea...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Ashton[end italics]: 'Colonel Forbes has not in appea...Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, Macaulay - no less than a "History of England".' ...John Mitchel Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most reverentially, gave me some fine language, and very proba...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text is Macaulay's History of England. RLS has been refe...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubington: 'I have been reading [italics]Southey's Lif...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Life of SoutheyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and pl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownAn Authentic Sketch of the life and public service...Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Puseytwo sermonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-WorshipPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell pamphletsPrint: Pamphlet


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