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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'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson MabinogionPrint: Book
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Llywarch HenPrint: Book
1850-1899'In April [1857] a report reached us that old Tom Moore was dying. A friend writes: "This darling old poet is only just alive, mind and body. X goes over frequently to se...Thomas Moore Alfred TennysonpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'This summer [1857] the tour was to Manchester, Coniston, Inverary Castle, and Carstairs (the home of my father's college friend Monteith). On this journey he read aloud ...Alfred Tennyson Thomas HughesTom Brown's SchooldaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]' Robert Louis Stevenson James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson.Print: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]'Robert Louis Stevenson Henri MartinHistory of FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Allan Ramsayunknown Print: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Olivier Basselin […] "On dit qu’il nuit aux yeux; mais seront-ils les maistres? Le vin est guarison De mes maux; J’aime mieux perdre les deux fenest...Robert Louis Stevenson Olivier BasselinA Son NezPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Many thanks for your letter and the instalment of Forrester which accompanied it, and which I read with amusement and pleasure.'Robert Louis Stevenson James Walter FerrierForresterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The family is all very shaky in health but our motto is now "Al Monte!" in the words of Don Lope, in the play the sister and I are just beating through with two bad dict...Robert Louis Stevenson Lope de VegaunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'Robert Louis Stevenson unknownmaterial about BurnsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I read […] Comines […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Philippe de ComminesMemoiresPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read […] Juvenal des Ursins, etc. [….]'Robert Louis Stevenson Jean Juvenal des UrsinsunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-189919 November 1880, from Paris: 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias SmollettHumphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I believe I have not written to you since I saw the end of the Undiscovered Country.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean HowellsUndoscovered CountryPrint: Book
1850-1899'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, complaining of the price paid for it. As it happens,...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, which I am in the heart of, with sincere pleasure.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hill BurtonHistory of the Reign of Queen AnnePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughAmours de VoyagePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms deep.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Bruce HamleyOperations of WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − ...Robert Louis Stevenson John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of LorneGuido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.Print: Book


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