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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'Colvin?s article on B.C. was so much better than I had expected; he had the courage (which I lacked) to find fault; if I had dared to do so, I might have praised much mo...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinReview of Basil Champneys' book A Quiet Corner of ...Unknown
1850-1899'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama]Print: Book
1850-1899'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & reading through printed papers that I had published f...John Buckley Castieau John Buckley Castieau[papers]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity of having the Court at the Insolvent Court House.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownVarious unspecified books concerning John Knox.Print: Book
1850-1899'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or WanderjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'This is E. A. Poe: Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devo...Robert Louis Stevenson Edgar Allan PoeTo my Mother.Print: Book
1850-1899'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melbourne [?] & Melbourne Life. The Article to-day descr...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Weekly TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine. Some of them interested me very much though I was r...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the pantomime delighted Harry very much & he could'ent he...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".'John Buckley Castieau Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sully Prudhomme to read when I come to you. Soulary bett...Robert Louis Stevenson Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhommeunknown poetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whenever she felt morose or lonely she looked into books, and, having an insatiable curiosity, by the time she was three she had taught herself to read. Hans Christian A...Edith Sitwell Hans Christian AndersenFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899 [Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a wonder I didn't set myself on fire. I had memorized ...Edith Sitwell Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn...Edith Sitwell Felicia Hemans'Casabianca'Print: Book
1850-1899Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which father lugged home [from library] for me [...] He mus...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book


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