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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'The "Stones of Venice" seem nobly laid and chiselled. How grandly the "Quarry" of vast marbles is disclo...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 8 March 1851:

'Papa was much pleased with Mr Ruskin's Pamphlet, only he thought the scheme of amalgamation suggested towa...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinNotes on the Construction of SheepfoldsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 8 March 1851:

'Papa was much pleased with Mr Ruskin's Pamphlet, only he thought the scheme of amalgamation suggested towa...		Patrick Brontë John RuskinNotes on the Construction of SheepfoldsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 July 1853:

'Mr Ruskin's beautiful book reached me safely this morning; its arrival was a pleasant surprise, for I was ...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [?of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs John RuskinunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Cyril Langford John RuskinOn the Nature of GothicPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 28th May 1945
    Elsie D. Harrod in the chair.

[...]

4. The subject of the eveni...		Francis E. Pollard John RuskinSesame and LiliesPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all fu...Gertrude Bell John Ruskin?Mornings in FlorencePrint: Book
1850-1899'Then to the Scuola of St Rocco where, with the help of the good old Ruskin, I got near to Tintoret[to].' Gertrude Bell John RuskinModern Painters, Vol. 2Print: Book
1900-1945'Do you read Ruskin at all? I am sure you don't. Well I am reading a book of his at present called "A joy for ever", which is charming, though I am not sure you would c...Clive Staples Lewis John RuskinA Joy for Ever: (and Its Price in the Market): Bei...Print: Book
1900-1945'At St. Servan I became extravagant and purchased myself a birthday present for 4 francs. Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. I had no prose reading with me, and one can hav...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Scroggs came back from Pontorson by train, but I rode, [bicycle] and thereby saved 3 francs 50 cent. Another 50 cent. and I will have paid for my Ruskins. I like his ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most masterly exposition of the meaning and method ...Thomas Edward Lawrence John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am int...Edward Moulton-Barrett John Russell[Speech on Reform]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney John RussellTour in Germany, and some of the southern province...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my conditi...Samuel Pepys John RusthworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill John RuttyHistory of the Rise and Progress of the People cal...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li...Maria Edgeworth John SargentThe Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th...Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a short Residence in London - I have found leisure to peru...William Wordsworth John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it ... Nothing in your works has charmed us more than ...Wordsworth FamilyJohn ScottParis Revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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