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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
 
1700-1799'What is become of Moschus? You sported some of his sublimities, I see, in your Watchman. Very decent things.'Charles Lamb Robert LovellThe WatchmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold of the Young Protector; it is too old a book to be ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CuthbertsonSanto Sebastiano: or, The Young ProtectorPrint: Book
1800-1849'What paltry stuff the Memoirs of poor vain Genlis are!'Sarah Harriet Burney Stephanie Felicite Brulart, comtesse de GenlisMemoiresPrint: Book
1700-1799'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells us is certain. Dr. Henry More has carried it as far...Samuel Johnson Henry More[theological works]Print: Book
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & then your nameless novel. ...I am in a fever to fin...Arnold Bennett George Sturt[unnamed novel]Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'Arnold Bennett George SturtFruit Blossom TimeManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Alexander Pope  Print: Book
1900-1945'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' Arnold Bennett Bart KennedyAmerica RevisitedPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité , "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pas...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertTrois ContesPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Gustave FlaubertMadame BovaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantCe Cochon de MorinPrint: Book
1850-1899'What really brought us [Ford and Conrad] together was a devotion to Flaubert and Maupassant. We discovered we both had Félicité, "St.-Julien l'Hospitalier", immense pass...Joseph Conrad Guy de MaupassantLa Nuit Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'What really [underlined] has [end underlining] harmed me here [as opposed to Violet Hunt's memoirs]- oddly enough -is Jessie's letter to the [underlined] Times [end unde...Ford Madox Ford Jessie ConradTimes Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the "Cartagena" book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength of feeling, steadfastness of sympathies and force ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCartagena and the Banks of the SinuPrint: Book
1900-1945'What with slumber, sandwiches and a copy of the Scotsman secured by the canny guard of our train from one proceeding in the contrary direction—the trains were appa...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ...Hugh Walpole variousThe Abbotsford CorrespondencePrint: BookUnknown
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1900-1945		'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's correspondence with Atkinson] lying; and I read her Mr. Atk...Harriet Martineau Mr AtkinsonLetter on "distribution of the brain"Print: In proof


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