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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson 'book about Russia'Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 1st. A. [...] is very cheerful, and is reading me a book about Russia. He is interested in the strange sects among the Russ...Alfred Tennyson Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Sept. 5th. Returned [from Continental travels] by Lausanne and Amiens to Aldworth. A. read Le Lendemain de la Mort on the way.'Alfred Tennyson Le Lendemain de la MortPrint: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's 'letter-diary' (1872): 'Nov. 1st. [...] I saw "Bijou" last night, and was ashamed of my countrymen for flocking to such a wretched non-entity, miserabl...Alfred Tennyson playbillPrint: Handbill
1850-1899'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learn...Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships - and Husband to the Woman mentioned on Page 58. ha...Humphrey Jackson [Greek Testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr Jackson - a quondam Chymist, well known for his Projects to destroy the Worm which perforates the Bottoms of Ships - and Husband to the Woman mentioned on Page 58. ha...Humphrey Jackson [history]Print: Book
1700-1799'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good authority That Garrick wrote them himself: The Town...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses on Garrick's Lear]Unknown
1700-1799'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of his giving her an elegant Penknife as a Present. I ...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses to a wife, about a penknife]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Apropos to Garrick when I dined at Hampton last there was a pompous Reading of some pretty Verses from A Gentleman to [italics] his own [end italics] wife with a Knife -...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses on a lady and a pen knife]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you been reading the Bible lately; Yes, Sir, replies the Ma...James Francis Edward Keith BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Revised Version of New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems more entertaining than the sentimental pieties of "Ch...Winifred Holtby Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Pe...Print: Book
1900-1945'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published novel , "Inheritance", which Winifred had voted "magnifi...Vera Brittain PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'A propos to Gardening he once advised me to buy myself some famous Book upon the Subject, and read it says he attentively, but do not believe it' Samuel Johnson [book on gardening]Print: Book
1700-1799'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to talk of it. - one day however after reading the odd ...Hester Lynch Thrale HuetaniaPrint: Book
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876: 'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don Quixote and Sancho. I shall write you out a [italic...Edward Fitzgerald 'old Spanish Romances'Print: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's manuscript notes on his volume of Ballads and Poems (1880): '"Rizpah" is founded on an incident which I saw thus related in some penny magazine called ...Alfred Tennyson Old BrightonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of t...Susan Thrale [a story book]Print: Book
1700-1799'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which he had read in the Newspaper & quoted from Thence a... [newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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