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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'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not speak it'.George Gissing Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'My discouragement is from many causes: among others the re-reading of my Italian story. Forgive me, Colvin, but I cannot agree with you; it seems green fruit to me, if n...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWhen the Devil Was Well. Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899I am very busy with Beranger for the "Britannica".Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre-Jean BerangerunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'O when we woke in London docks, the first steamer I saw go past was the "Charles", and the next the "Cygnet": I was afraid to look any more, I felt so eerie; but of cour...Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, Painted (or stencilled?) on ships' sides.
1850-1899'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson Philip Gilbert Hamerton Art Essays Print: Book
1850-1899'My dear Weg, I received your book last night ... You know what a wooden hearted curmudgeon I am about contemporary verse .. Hence you will be kind enough to take this fr...Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseNew PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bancroft's History of the United States, even in a centenary edition, is essentially heavy fare ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George BancroftHistory of the United States of America from the D...Print: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere on time spent with Alfred Tennyson in London during 1850: 'Few of the hours I spent with Alfred surive with such a pathetic sweetness and nearness in my...Aubrey de Vere Alfred Tennysonstanzas from In MemoriamManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to 'Mr Malan', 14 November 1883: 'I can assure you I am innocent as far as I am aware of knowing one line of Statius; and of Ovid's "Epicedion" I never...Alfred Tennyson Ovid worksPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam: 'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not speak as another would to praise and admire: few of...Henry Hallam Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.Alfred and Emily TennysonCharles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to his wife Emily, 13 July 1852: 'I am reading lots of novels. The worst is they do not last longer than the day. I am such a fierce reader I think I h...Alfred Tennyson novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1852 my father and mother went on a visit to one of his old College friends, Mr Rashdall the clergyman of Malvern [...] While they were there my father read Dr ...Alfred Tennyson Dr WordsworthApocalypsePrint: Book
1850-1899'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read...Alfred Tennyson LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1850-1899'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read...Alfred Tennyson Herschel'Astronomy'Print: Book
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852: 'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] It has a greatness worthy of its theme and an absolu...Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonOde on the Death of the Duke of Wellington Print: Unknown
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable. I mean the talk of the Christianized Jew to the cla...Alfred Tennyson Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Some days we [Tennyson children] went flower-hunting, and on our return home, if the flower was unknown, he [Alfred Tennyson] would say, "Bring me my Baxter's Flowering ...Alfred Tennyson BaxterFlowering PlantsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'Alfred Tennyson GrimmFairy StoriesPrint: Book


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