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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson John Richard Green Print: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton John Richard Green[history]Print: 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 Richard GreenA A Short History of the English People Print: Book
1850-1899'To my surprise (as I disliked the ''Life of Jefferies'' so much) I like his ''Wild Life in a Southern County'' very much. The descriptions of country and birds are excel...Emma Darwin John Richard JefferiesLife in a Southern CountyPrint: Book
1850-1899?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall...Leslie Stephen John Robert SeeleyEcce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ...Print: Book
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p...George Scott John Rodrigo Dos Passos[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:] 'I duly received Mirabeau from Mr Smith [...] When I have read the book, I wil...Charlotte Brontë John Stores SmithMirabeau: A Life HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, as Currer Bell, to her publisher W. S. Williams, 22 June 1848:

'I feel a little difficulty in telling you what I think of the "Life of Mira...		Charlotte Brontë John Stores SmithMirabeau: A Life HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay John Stuart Millprobably 'On Liberty'Print: Book
1900-1945'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o...Frank Argent John Stuart Mill Print: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies John Stuart Mill Print: Book
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole John Stuart Mill[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literat...Thomas Burt John Stuart MillPolitical EconomyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillConquest in America, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillA System of LogicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart Mill[on socialism]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown


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