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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
 
1600-1699'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed'Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleSome considerations touching the style of the Holy...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage 16th December 1944
    Muriel Stevens in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & ...		Howard Smith Max BeerbohmSOME DAMNABLE ERRORS ABOUT CHRISTMAS, G.K. CH*ST*R...Print: Book
1900-1945'As to the novel I think that between us two, if I tell you that I consider it "tout à fait chic" you will understand perfectly how much that "phrase de l'atelier" means ...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox FordSome Do Not... Print: Book
1900-1945'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fortnight I might manage to finish (by February) "The Ag...Hilary Spalding Charles LambSome Essays of EliaPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip WoodhouseSome Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aris...Print: Book
1900-1945 Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in it yet! The one point on which I would seriously opp...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettSome Impressions of my EldersPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding R Brimley JohnsonSome Little TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galswor...Joseph Conrad Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett)Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and EstimatesPrint: Book
1700-1799'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.'Frances Burney some new novelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Francis E. Pollard Henry Marriage WallisSome New ThingManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph BeaumontSome Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry Mo...Print: Book
Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in t...Anne Lister By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton Some passages in the life of Mr Adam BlairPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had d...Sydney Smith John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Ministe...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe there was an outcry against the indecency of that bo...Elizabeth Barrett John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minist...Print: Book
1800-1849'[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and like Adam Blair cannot say my prayers'.Lady Caroline Lamb J.G. LockhartSome Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam BlairPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...James Boswell Gilbert BurnetSome passages of the life and death of the Right H...Print: Book
1700-1799'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...Samuel Johnson Gilbert BurnetSome passages of the life and death of the Right H...Print: Book
1900-1945''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.' Arnold Bennett George SturtSome Peasant WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The whole household went to bed early [...] then with a mind refreshed and made receptive [...] I sat down to read your two articles — and it was a delightful (c'est le ...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinSome Personal RecollectionsManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and then home to supper and then to read the late printed discourse of Witches by a member of Gresham College, and then to bed - the discourse being well writ in good st...Samuel Pepys Joseph GlanvillSome philosophical considerations touching the bei...Print: Book


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