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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'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equal to anything going round. I have been fascinated ...Arnold Bennett W.B. YeatsThe Celtic TwilightPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to improve as they go on , & which certainly strike me as ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsA Story of the Days to ComePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.' Arnold Bennett A. E. HousmanA Shropshire LadPrint: Book
1850-1899One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...anon Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they were called. The only boy present was sitting, deep...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret OliphantReview of The Master of BallantraePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chapter of 'Robinson' read aloud in a farm kitchen. Up t...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, full of the real and the [italics] juste [end italics]....Henry James Mary Augusta WardBessie CostrellPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter to Mrs Ward from Edward Burne-Jones] The book has just come - and to my pride and delight with such a pretty autograph: so that to-day I am mightily set up. I ca...Edward Burne Jones Mary Augusta WardDavid GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, "Catechismi intorno al Protestanteismo ed alla Chies...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Giovanni PerroneCatechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chie...Print: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]: 'The seats of this Theatre are quite perfect [...] We ...Thomas Babington MacaulayLay of the Battle of Lake RegillusPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangelica] which has been lent me, giving an account of it...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownPamphlet on the Chiesa EvangelicaPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind; but we can't quite make out where we are, ... 'Italian play'Print: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind;...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', headed 'Bugiasta or Pagiastra, or something of the kind;...Elizabeth Missing Sewell newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a friend of Cavour and acquaintance of Garibaldi, previous...Elizabeth Missing Sewell anon[novel]Unknown
1850-1899'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownCassell's Illustrated Family PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'.. there is a picture in Punch and it is a man beating a great many drums ...'Robert Louis Stevenson PunchPrint: Serial / periodical


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