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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
 
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read lately, the whole front of which is directed against ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederic SoulieLe BananierPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horne and Mary GilliesA Story Book of Country ScenesPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Moulton-Barrett family (children)S. W.A Visit to a Farm-housePrint: Book
1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Forster's Dickens. It interested, but disappointed me -...Henry James John ForsterLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945 I am returning your Memoirs. Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips here and there. And also one or two places where I t...Arnold Bennett William RothensteinMen and MemoirsManuscript: typescript
1900-1945 I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian preface. I am bound to say, with all my modesty, that it t...Arnold Bennett Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one. . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ readin...Arnold Bennett Hubert GriffithTunnel TrenchPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done. Arnold Bennett James Hanley?A Passion before DeathManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945 I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full of wit and fancy and most admirably written. I shou...Arnold Bennett H Hamer [anon]Roasted Angels
1900-1945 I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not ye...Arnold Bennett André GideThe Vatican SwindlePrint: Book
1900-1945 I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'. I see in the course of a year a large number of American translations, and I have not ye...Arnold Bennett André GideThe School of WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945 I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me throughout its immense length. Arnold Bennett Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
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1850-1899		 I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to him my discovery of the magnificent verses in which ...George Otto Trevelyan Juvenal Print: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett L.G. JohnsonArnold Bennett of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945 I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomparably better than Darton’s—at any rate than the fir...Arnold Bennett Frederick Joseph Harvey DartonArnold Bennett Print: Book
1900-1945 I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often rea...Arnold Bennett Roger Martin du GardJean BaroisPrint: Book
1900-1945 I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed by it that I had it charmingly bound, and I often rea...Arnold Bennett Valery LarbaudAmants, heureux amantsPrint: Book
1900-1945 I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1900-1945 I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well enough even to say anything about it to him at all. . . ...Arnold Bennett Notable British TrialsPrint: Book
1900-1945 In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s papers were excessively rude about it, the third (Sun...Arnold Bennett Sunday ExpressPrint: Newspaper


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