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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'Thanks ever so much for "The Invisible Man". I shall keep him a few more days longer. Frankly--it is uncommonly fine.[Hence follows a long paragraph of appreciative com...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since "The Red Badge [of ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Price of the HarnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I had a treat in the shape of a number of the "Singapore Free Press" 2 and a half columns about "Mr Conrad at home and abroad". extremely laudatory but in fact telling m...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordArticle in Singapore Free PressPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The trans: of the T.M.["The Time Machine"] is really first rate. What an admirably good thing it is, this T.M. How true,clever, ingenious, full of thought and beauty. I ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Time MachinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ça -- c'est bien lui!' [Its good, that-- it's really him!] Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Grahamletter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica"Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The thing ["A Paheka"] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA PahekaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamFamily PortraitsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad William BeckfordVathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Cali...Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read "Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the im...Joseph Conrad Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales Print: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read"Vathek" at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The style is cold and I do not see in the work the imm...Joseph Conrad Abu Zaid (and Wilfrid Scawen Blunt)The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its vacant stupidity is a mere trial of faith.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (John)Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, Rome] I said not a word - and came home and read Harn...Mary Augusta Ward Alfred von Harnack Print: Book
1850-1899'you are not coming up to a certain Mr Hibbert who is now reading Mary Barton for the [italics] fourteenth [end italics] time.'Mr Hibbert Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the s...Walter Savage Landor William GaskellLectures on the Lancashire DialectUnknown
1850-1899'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much wo...Miss Patterson Henry Morley'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to Mr Wills, and ask who wrote it; and now, as much wo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry Morley'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says life is so vivid that books seem poor. The latter vol...Florence Nightingale Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen Print: Book
1850-1899'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; and turn it over, & peep in, and read a sentence and...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anna JamesonCommonplace Book of Thoughts, APrint: Book
1850-1899'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully just at this time.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Household Words [?]Print: Serial / periodical


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