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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
 
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor)The Portfolio: An Artistic PeriodicalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the same thing foreshadowed in various other things on Fac...Mary Augusta Ward [papers on Factory Law]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the East End of London at that time; wading through pile...Mary Augusta Ward [blue books of statistics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Today I have been to church which has not improved my temper I must own. The clergyman did his best to make me hate him and I took refuge in that admirable poem, The Son...Robert Louis Stevenson Bible, O.T., Judges, Chapter 5.Print: Book, Bible or possibly prayerbook
1850-1899'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars and [italics] cellae [end italics], their priests' s...Mary Augusta Ward [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]Print: Book
1850-1899'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.'Robert Louis Stevenson Patrice de MacMahonunknownPrint: Poster
1850-1899'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveChateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empi...Print: Book
1850-1899'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'Robert Louis Stevenson Maria EdgeworthMoral Tales for Young PeoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Andrews seems very pleasant and we had a fierce forenoon of it over meteorology. He has Bookan (as he calls him)...'Robert Louis Stevenson Alexander BuchanHandy Book of Meteorology [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards until ten, when I begin work, I read Reforma...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownworks on the ReformationPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'This [i.e. letter] had been lying a long while. I must send it off in proof I didn’t quite forget you. I saw yours to the Baronick, and was surprised at one piece of int...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles BaxterletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Thanks for the newspapers and for having marked them. Baildon has rather got it; I cannot but feel sympathy with the reviewer.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Scotsman/Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was much surprised at [what] Charteris said of John Stuart Mill. "Seemed to have been kind and benevolent" is used where, for any one else, he would have said '"was" k...Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh CourantPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Japanese picture books]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have gone in for a course of George Sand with immense delight and good results to health, sprits and poor bemuddled brains.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, please read, Francois le Champi by George Sand; it is like a dream of goodness and virtue and gentle heroism.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandFrancois le ChampiPrint: Book
1850-1899'I came up from Lincolnshire to town on Monday and went down that night to Magdalen to read my Catullus, but while lying in bed on Tuesday morning with Swinburne (a copy ...Oscar Wilde Algernon Charles SwinburneunknownPrint: Book


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