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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you had been silent upon the subject, or even if you had d...Sydney Smith John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Ministe...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844: 'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe there was an outcry against the indecency of that bo...Elizabeth Barrett John Gibson LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minist...Print: Book
1800-1849'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her op...Miss [-] John Gibson LockhartAdam BlairPrint: Book
1800-1849'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]'s "Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life"; and her op...Miss [-] John Gibson LockhartValeriusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Testimonium, A Prize Poem by James Scott, Esq.'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Stott [end italics] had been left out of Scott's prize ...James Hogg John Gibson Lockhart'Dietrich Knickernocker's History of New York'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read Reginald with great care and with great interest. It is a masterly work upon the whole, particularly in stile grouping and plot. In these its excellencies li...James Hogg John Gibson LockhartReginald DaltonPrint: Book
1800-1849?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make nothing of it. I think very little of the gentleman wh...Charles Dickens John Gideon MillingenThe Portrait GalleryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Wrote, and read "Persian Gulf Gazetteer", a unique and monumental compilation, and a political history of the Middle East beyond compare.'Ronald Storrs John Gordon LorimerGazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Ar...Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way do you like Maud. I cannot say I do. It strikes me that if John Smith or Bill Jones had written it, they would have been put into an asylum. There are only ...Emily De Quincey John Greenleaf WhittierunknownUnknown
1900-1945'A short programme of selections from American authors had been arranged but time only sufficed for the reading of The Meeting by Whittier the rendering of which by Mrs E...Elizabeth Edminson John Greenleaf WhittierMeeting, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol].John Clare John Hamilton ReynoldsThe Garden of FlorencePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hay Athole Macdonaldelection speechUnknown
1900-1945'A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Katharine Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'A most refreshing and quiet day in Makindye — did not even go to church. Got 9 letters written[;] in the aft. sat on the hill side and read to K. [Katharine Cook] Jowett...Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'To Makindye. Enjoyed reading Jowett's "Things That Matter Most".'Albert Ruskin Cook John Henry JowettThings That Matter Most: Devotional ReadingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real issues of belief and unbelief, those which have to ...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt John Henry NewmanLoss and GainPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora...Leslie Stephen John Henry NewmanAn essay in aid of a grammar of assentPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edwards [Sewell's brother] there was no doubt that Newman ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanObedience, the remedy for religious perplexityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanTracts for the TimesPrint: Book


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