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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'This evening I had Davila brought home to me, and I find it a most excellent history as I ever read.'Samuel Pepys E.C. DavilaStoria delle guerre civile di FranciaPrint: Book
1850-1899'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's Storia di San Marco'.George Eliot [pseud.] MarcheseStoria di San MarcoPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910: 'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining book [...] He is so amusing & vivid about the Indian c...Edward Morgan Forster Niccolo ManucciStoria do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708Print: Book
1850-1899'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... storiesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte...M. C. Mondy storiesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mme. Blaze de Bury -- an Englishwoman with a French hu...Mme. Blaze de Bury Henry JamesstoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if she were not so clever she coudn't be so disagreeable...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldstoriesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Their [the Tennyson children's] imaginative natures gave them many sources of amusement. One of these lasted a long time: the writing of tales in letter form, to be put ...Tennyson family Tennyson (family members)storiesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1816): 'I send you seven stories [for 'Stories for Children from the History of England'], which, with the eleven you had before, b...John Murray John Wilson CrokerStories for Children from the History of England (...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occurred to me as improvement. Your work and your corre...Joseph Conrad Guy de Maupassant Stories from de Maupassant [English title] Manuscript: Proofs
1800-1849'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntStories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the ...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had become convinced by reading "Cousin Marshall" and others ...J. J. Gurney Harriet MartineauStories including "Cousin Marshall"Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had become convinced by reading "Cousin Marshall" and others ...Family of Elizabeth FryHarriet MartineauStories including "Cousin Marshall"Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Since reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my Numbers, [Lord Henley] had dropped his subscriptions to some hurtful charities, and had devoted his funds to Education, ...Lord Henley Harriet MartineauStories including "Cousin Marshall"Print: Unknown
1800-1849'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) the Duchess of Kent sent Sir John Conroy to me [Harri...Princess Victoria Harriet MartineauStories including "Ella of Garveloch"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, whic...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840): 'I did not ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on the sofa half asleep, as I thought; but he listened...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excellent saleable stories. I have practically no fault t...Arnold Bennett Edward Knoblockstories [unidentified]Manuscript: Unknown


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