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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' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849' have not yet seen him [Sir James Mackintosh], but I hear that he has read or has heard some chapters of "L'Angleterre". He says it is full of talent, but that there are...James Mackintosh Germaine de Stael[writings about England, never published as 'De L'...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' I am disappointed that it is not raining, but bethought myself that it might rain at the time of the procession. I washed, dressed and shaved in an even more leisurely ...Emile BurnsHandbook of MarxismPrint: Book
1900-1945' I didn't write before because I was finishing something. That does not mean that I did not read the play ["Joy"] at once. I've read it more than once the very first day...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJoyPrint: probably a playscript
1800-1849' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote ...Harriet Martineau George GreyJournals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northw...Print: Book
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal arti...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal arti...James Hogg Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?' [letter to John Bowring who was helpiing Mary with Spa...Mary Shelley Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.]Works of Garcilaso de la VegaPrint: Book
1900-1945' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945' I have just finished the book ["Mr. Apollo"] which reached me this morning [...].It comes off magnificently.' Hence follow 14 lines of almost unqualified praise. Joseph Conrad Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)Mr. ApolloPrint: BookManuscript: proofs
1900-1945' I haven't quite finished Mrs Wharton. It's very good and readable as she always is I think. It was a great solace to me on the way. Also I had a volume of poems by Rupe...Gertrude Bell Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it b...Mary Shelley [unknown][Greek texts]Print: Book
1850-1899' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...'Mary Wollstonecraft Addington[Letters]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849' I was much gratified by your giving me Eugene Aram to do - & then just as I was setting to it "tooth and nail" - some events in the family of a friend of mine forced me...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerEugene AramPrint: Book
1900-1945' I wish I had seen S.T. [Sybil Thorndike] in "Gruach" — I read it and thought it so fine. And I like all your talk about plays like Mr Pepys.'Gertrude Bell Gordon BottomleyGruach and Britain's Daughter: Two PlaysPrint: playscript
1700-1799' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.'Mary Wollstonecraft Anne RadcliffeItalian, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable reference to the tempi passati. As to the book itself no ...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamBernal Diaz de Castillo: Being Some Account of Him...Print: Book
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book


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