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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
 
1850-1899Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclina...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantThe Duke's DaughterPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'I read with the greatest of interest your communications to the "Times [Literary Supplement]" in the Dumas-Maquet affair. All this story is quite new to me.'Joseph Conrad Robert GarnettThe Dumas Maquet Case (and) Dumas and Maquet Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nature as this must remain to some extent neglected. ...Gerald Moore Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall be, that every one of my subjects, who is incapable ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addresses to and by the personification of 'Dulness', begi...Edward Morgan Forster Alexander PopeThe Dunciad (books I and II)Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the "Dunciad", with Warton's and Wakefield's Annotations...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeThe Dunciad, with annotations by Warton and Wakefi...Print: Book
1850-1899'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ...John Masefield Alfred, Lord TennysonThe Dying SwanPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am still revelling in "The Dynasts". The amount of historical reading and travelling that must have gone to compose such a work must have been tremendous … the cha...Charles Hamilton Sorley Thomas HardyThe Dynasts: A Drama of the Napoleonic WarsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellThe Earl's DaughterManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial present of Carlyle ... I read the two volumes with e...Henry James Thomas CarlyleThe Early Letters of CarlylePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f...Alfred Edgar Coppard William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William Morris: "After dinner (we stayed to dinner, Miss Gr...William Morris William MorrisThe Earthly ParadiseUnknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I went at once to the bookseller's which sold "The Penn...Edwin Muir William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Hillsborough, Glebe Road: 15. V. 34.
    Reginald H. Robson in the chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		Charles E. Stansfield William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
1900-1945'I will talk to you at length about the stories when you are well enough to come down here for the weekend.[...]. The value of these tales relies in the "nuances" of colo...Joseph Conrad Richard CurleThe Echo of Voices Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have [seen?] at least a score of one description or anot...George Gordon Lord Byron The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'very clever, useful, & searching, but obscure, uphill, & with the great disadvantage of long dialogues with the part of the objector stated by the author who means to co...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry RogersThe Eclipse of FaithPrint: Book
1800-1849I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Biographical Sketch of Dodsley is drawn with much beaut...John Horrocks Ainsworth Robert DodsleyThe Economy of Human LifePrint: Book


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