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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'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given the exact measure of your characters in a language ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJocelynManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the "Life of Santa Teresa" is the impression of a wonderful richness; a...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" went out of his way to damn Kipling and me with the sa...Joseph Conrad Arthur Symons[article in Saturday Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what's more you can say what you know in a most individ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBristol Fashion Pt.2 Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[in reference to Israel Zangwill's praise for "The Nigger of the Narcissus" Conrad expresses] 'a disinterested admiration for his [Zangwill's] work-- dating far back, to ...Joseph Conrad Israel ZangwillPremier and the PainterPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Guide book simply magnificent [italics] Everlastingly good!. I've read it last night having only then returned home.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamNotes on the District of MenteithPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unrival[l]ed knowledge of the subject. But it is not lite...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordStudies in Brown HumanityPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not exactly perceive what on earth they have been making...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamAurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in SevillePrint: Book, Pamphlet, see additional comments
1850-1899'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition of Don Quixote. Very fair. Nothing striking but disti...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamPreface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in MoroccoManuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages
1850-1899'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street. We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.'Joseph Conrad Neil MunroThe Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899' "Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flattered that you discern some points of similitude. Of ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamHigginson's DreamPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have a poet in stock here, a poor ass in the infirmary with one leg off and the other more than shaky − scrofula you know − but [italics]bougrement[end ita...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[poems]Unknown
1850-1899'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an intellectual thrill out of the subject. The second [...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe Two MagicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read "Shifting of the Fire". I have read it several times looking for your "inside" in that book; the first impression being that there is a considerable "inside...Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Shifting of the FirePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book ["Mogreb-el-Acksa"] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped everything--as you may imagine and rushed at it pa...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamMogreb-el-AcksaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance. Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approaching it has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" ["Pers...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamMogreb-el-AcksaPrint: Book


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