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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
 
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912: 'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it does help one to distinguish between the superficial ...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Your gift is none the less welcome because I read your book a few weeks ago. E[dward] Garnett, Duckworth's literary advisor sent it to me shortly after publication.'Joseph Conrad David Bone The BrassbounderPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the charming copy of "The Brassbounder". It is as fresh and attractive as ever to read and I am still under the charm of this sincere and fascinating rec...Joseph Conrad David Bone The BrassbounderPrint: Book
1900-1945'I got the play ["The Breaking Point"] at 9 this morning. I've shut myself up with it at once and I won't come out of the room. I will see no one, will let no word or th...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettThe Breaking PointPrint: unclear whether MS or printed playscript
1600-1699'I read also Dr Taylour of practical repentance, and Dr Preston of faith, and found good by them'.Isaac Archer John PrestonThe Breast-Plate of Faith and LovePrint: Book
1600-1699'May 6. I began seriously to read Dr Preston's sermons of faith; and that I might understand them the better, and that they might be fixed in my memory, I preached upon E...Isaac Archer John PrestonThe Breast-plate of Faith and Love. A treatise whe...Print: Book
1800-1849'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'George Canning George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813): 'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of Abydos]," that I ventured last night to introduce he...George Gordon Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814: 'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and only delay acknowledging the receipt of a copy from th...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849'Modern Greece/ From the Bride of Abydos' 'Know ye the land where the cypress & myrtle/...' [canto one, stanza one (only) of Bride of Abydos: A Turkish Tale]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of Abydos OR 'Modern Greece'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I am in a state of amazement at a discovery just made; ...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of Ravenswood, his dark haughty beauty, his flowing cl...Flora Thompson Sir Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him Mr Walter Scott. I should as soon say Mr Shakespeare...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetitions of himself. Caleb is overdone. Sir W. and Lady ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: and Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, lured on by t...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'.Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book


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