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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use...Richard Litchfield John Ruskin Print: Book
1850-1899'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chap...Charlotte Mary Yonge John RuskinSeven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo...Thomas Burt John RuskinCrown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traff...Print: Book
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, Adam Bede, and other of Georg...Thomas Burt John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo...Thomas Burt John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Golden River", and I most certainly read that. It is, in...Norman Nicholson John RuskinKing of the Golden RiverPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and pl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1900-1945A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wood...Ethel Carnie John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exagg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899'?I am reading Ruskin?s "Stones of Venice"with great pleasure. He can [italics] write [end italics] a few, can?t he?'Robert Louis Stevenson John RuskinStones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am reading. Ruskin's Seven Lamps of Architecture for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman's soul, - in liking Modern Painters, and the idea o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...Noel Odell John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave great delight to my daughter, when they arrived yeste...Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the gener...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinThe Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with five commas omitted from original): 'Every mutiny ever...Edward Morgan Forster John Ruskin'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owne...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinIntroduction to Notes on Turner drawingsPrint: Book


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