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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is per...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquence is better than his company.'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse[speeches]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to hi...friends of ByronJohn Cam Hobhouse Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Italy -- some part of it the best he ever wrote ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French,also...Emma Darwin John Campbell Shairp?Aspects of PoetryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a poem 'To Samuel Foote Esq, on seeing his Englishman i...Samuel Foote John Carteret PilkingtonTo Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in ...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, by chance, not knowing it was the day on which they ...John Ruskin John Charles Ryle[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such as have nothing extraordinary about them.'Benjamin Newton John Chetwode EustaceA [classical] tour through ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the 4th ed. [of [italics]A Tour through Italy[end italics], [italics]A Classical Tour through Italy, An. MDCCCII[end italics], 4 vols. (London, 1817) [...] [John Chet...Felicia Hemans John Chetwode EustaceA Classical Tour of Italy, An. MDCCCII (vol.1)Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Persae of Aeschylus & Eustace's travels'Percy Bysshe Shelley John Chetwode EustaceTour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the evening'Mary Shelley John Chetwode EustaceTour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scene...Print: Book
1900-1945'I knew that enlistment in the Navy was out of the question, because I had not the faintest hope of passing the eyesight test ... At last, while I was still itching with ...Desmond Malone John Clayborough HawksheadHandbook of Technical Instruction for Wireless Tel...Print: Book
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring John Collings SquireTwelve PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rawlinson sore leg. Wrote a letter home asking for biscuits &c. Read The Wayfarers by JC Snaith.'William Thomas John Collis SnaithThe WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945'11.30 service. Rather depressed. Ev Bridge Won. Read the Wayfarers & the Country of the Blind by HG Wells.'William Thomas John Collis SnaithThe WayfarersPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. Pericles. Taming of Shr...Virginia Woolf John Cowper PowysAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James Joyce with no expectation that he would enjoy him, ...Philip Larkin John Cowper Powys[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardyesque fungi, the Powys [brothers T. F. and John Cowp...Edward Morgan Forster John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1900-1945Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best book of the autumn. As for Powys, he is a friend of mi...Arnold Bennett John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − ...Robert Louis Stevenson John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of LorneGuido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.Print: Book


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