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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
 
1900-1945'Thank you for the book. Reading it gave me very great pleasure.'Joseph Conrad Jean FayardOxford et Margaret Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literature of different historical periods from Les Grands T...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Freville, trans. and ed.Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich ...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest book was "Percy's Reliques," the delight of my chil...Mary Russell Mitford Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 22 September 1797: 'I have been reading old Froissart. after Sir Walter Manny & about a dozen Knights with three hundred ...Robert Southey Jean FroissartLe Premier (-Quart) Volume De Messire Jehan Froiss...Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Elizabeth Ann Smith Jean FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Without any doubt Jean [Gachet de la Fournière] has talent.[...] I wrote my immediate impression right after reading the manuscript.' Joseph Conrad Jean Gachet de la FournièreunknownManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Giono'Prelude de Pan'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled them back again, we took off our shoes and all got into...Henrietta Litchfield Jean IngelowDon JohnPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only just returned to town, and found the Rhyming Chronicle [title underlined]. Your cousin must be worth knowing: there are some very charming things in her book...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowRhyming chronicle of incidents and feelingsPrint: Book
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to 'Miss Holloway (of Spilsby)', 'about her cousin Miss Jean Ingelow's poems, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings': 'I have only just returne...Alfred Tennyson Jean IngelowA Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and FeelingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Jean Ingelow'John Ruskin Jean Ingelow[poems?]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Juvenal des UrsinsunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) Print: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)Pierre Loti: Biographie-critiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The study of Pierre Loti is very interesting. What's mo...Joseph Conrad Jean Masbrenier (Mariel)L'enseignement de GoethePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return from a library belonging to the dissenters — in Re...Robert Southey Jean MassonHistoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appe...Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Paul (pseud.)Leben des Quintus FixleinPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the facing verso of the MS [of Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff], [Wordsworth] ... copies out Athalie I.ii.278-82, 292-94 ... 'William Wordsworth Jean RacineAthalieUnknown


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