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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'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to Rosetti than anyone else in English: Sully-Prudhomme ...Robert Louis Stevenson SoularyunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you more good.'Sidney Colvin Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review?
1850-1899'Well, I was at the annual dinner of my old Academy schoolfellows last night. We sat down ten, out of seventy-two.[?] I read them some verses. It is great fun: I always r...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[unknown verses]Manuscript: Unknown, Probably sheets of paper or pages from a notebook.
1850-1899'Have you read Mademoiselle Merquem? I have just finished it ..'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandMademoiselle MerquemPrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Kenneth GrahameGolden AgePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is the most beautiful book published for many years').John Buchan Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'John Buchan Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'John Buchan Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church of England Bishop "on the Bible". His Lordship treate...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Him...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Book, manuscripts also mentioned
1850-1899'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking Gazette") and the despatches of the French general ...Francis Younghusband Peking GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even w...Francis Younghusband unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I also gratefully acknowledge receipt of the "Daily Telegraph." The Liberal gov was defeated on the budget vote a day or so [9 June 1885] before our departure from Penar...Joseph Conrad newspaper (Daily Telegraph)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The second number of the "Standard" came to hand yesterday via Singapore.' Joseph Conrad newspaper (London Evening Standard)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899''I have finished "Yaga" - twice. I shall write nothing to you about it while I am still under its charm.'Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: ésquisse de moeurs ruthénesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaLa Madone de Busowiska, moeurs houtsoulesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for your letter and the "Revue [des deux Mondes"], which I received two days ago. I have read "La Madone [de Busowska]" and am pleased to have read it in Fren...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaYaga: esquisse de moeurs ruthenesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[...] you remind me a little of Flaubert, whose "Madame Bovary" I have just reread with respectful admiration.'Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I threw myself (in a manner of speaking) on "Popes et popadias" with eagerness and high hopes. From the first lines my hopes were realised - and then very quickly surpas...Joseph Conrad Marguerite PoradowskaPopes et popadias (published in book form as Les F...Print: Serial / periodical


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