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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'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 Edinburgh ReviewPrint: 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] breat...Mary Augusta Ward TribunaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850: 'I complain of Florence for the want of books -- we have to dig & dig before we can get anything new...Robert Browning newspapersPrint: Newspaper
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850: 'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]North British[end italics]? I read a clever article in t...Elizabeth Barrett Browning 'German Socialism'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Helbeck of Bannisdale"].Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house she rented in Kent], giving her that grip of detail...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
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1850-1899		Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning Latter-Day PamphletsPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845: 'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreeable English book, with certain abbreviations, by The...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett The French Stage and the French People, as illustr...Print: Book
1800-1849'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas with me it is almost all. And yet I often ask mysel...George Crabbe  Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901: 'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over an immense fire with a wind roaring round the house...Leonard Woolf The Book of JobPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Leonard Woolf The Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Thoby Stephen 'What is Sport?'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf A Manual of EthicsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904: 'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees & masses of wonderful creepers [...] I have been read...Leonard Woolf Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911: 'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S. [Gaye] is going to marry.' ...Leonard Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912: 'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than your little Spanish dictionary. It is always in my ...Leonard Woolf Spanish dictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolates & reading & looking at pictures, including her own...Virginia Woolf The Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Virginia Woolf The Life of Mrs Humphry WardPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia reads the Life of Mrs Humphry Ward & I the Poor Law Mino...Leonard Woolf Poor Law Minority ReportPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914: 'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writing of Cardinal Manning. I have just read the Times & ...Leonard Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper


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