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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> obliterated by water]Sydney Smith CleryJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who t...Sydney Smith Charles NapierAn account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedr...Print: Book
1800-1849'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them. I fear the...Edward Bulwer Lytton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[History plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Anna Grosvenor James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel John...Print: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow through the tautology and vanity of the first volume...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have read only a few Pages which I very much admired - ther...James Stanier Clarke Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You will already have seen my word on Japanese Art. I read it a little differently, but your view of their fidelity to natural impressions is true, as far as it goes.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest Henley[article about Japanese art]Print: proof
1900-1945'You will be wondering why I am not writing. I have not found the time for several days to write letters. Other things have taken my spare hours, or I have felt tir...Thomas Wainwright [n/a] [n/a]Ludlow Advertiser and Craven Arms GazettePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'You will find in his pages ["Quiet Days in Spain"] the humours of starving workers of the soil, the vision among the mountains of an exulting ad spirit in a mighty bod...Joseph Conrad C.(Charles) Bogue LuffmanQuiet Days in SpainPrint: Book
1850-1899'You will find Lucy and Richard in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith ... I have read Richard thrice ...'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen...Thomas Carlyle Immanuel KantThe Critique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words...Thomas Carlyle William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 volsPrint: Book
1850-1899'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wished for your appreciation of Kate Winkworth's transla...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Christian Karl Josias BunsenLyra GermanicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . I have read through the novel, and had it altered to...Arnold Bennett Agnes FarleyAshdodManuscript: typescript
1850-1899'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particul...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][newspaper acconts of events in America in run up ...Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas M...James Hogg Allan Cunningham Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas ...James Hogg Thomas Mouncey Print: Unknown


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