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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook John Edgar McFadyenProblem of Pain: A Study in the Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838: 'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before I opened your letter'. Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839: 'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...] It [Italy] is the only poem of Mr Reade's I ever r...Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843: 'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr Kenyon's kindness. He is [italics]in Wordsworth n...Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund ReadeSacred PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844: 'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amused me more perhaps than it [italics]shd[end italics...Elizabeth Barrett John Edmund Readeletter to Mary Russell MitfordManuscript: Letter
1900-1945‘J. E. Patterson has written a book around Minehead, perhaps "Fishers of the Sea", or no—"Love Like the Sea"; which I liked. Perhaps you might. He has power, but an a...Ivor Bertie Gurney John Edward PattersonLove Like the SeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook John Edward SquireMedical Hints for the Use of Medical OfficersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage opening 'Keep men and things apart; guard against the ...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America suggested preparation for the next war rather than this...Vera Brittain John Frederick Charles Fullerarticle in the "Evening Standard"Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1800-1849'If you have not read Herschel in Lardners Cyclo ? read it directly.' Charles Darwin John Frederick William HerschelPreliminary discourse on the study of natural phil...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'Mary Shelley John G. DalyellShipwrecks and Disasters at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening'Edward Williams John G. Dalyell [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners...Sarah Harriet Burney John Gardner WilkinsonManners and Customs of the Ancient EgyptiansPrint: Book
1700-1799'Friday, April 7, I dined with him at a Tavern, with a numerous company. Johnson. "I have been reading Twiss's 'Travels in Spain', which are just come out. They are as go...Samuel Johnson John George KeyslerTravels through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzer...Print: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John Gibson LockhartThe Life of ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Qu...Sir Edward Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quak...Mariabella Fry John Gibson LockhartLife of ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have be...Felicia Hemans John Gibson LockhartReview of Thomas Moore's Life of ByronPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book


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