√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I call, deceptively, the Albatross.' Virginia Woolf John Stuart Mill Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound yo... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Stuart Mill On Liberty Print : Book1850-1899 George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853:
'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have read [italics]the[end italics] article
with much sati... George Grote John Stuart Mill Article on George Grote's History of Greece Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862):
'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazine," upon the Principle of Utility, having waited unt... George Grote John Stuart Mill articles 'upon the Principles of Utility' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941 Francis E. Pollard John Stuart Mill Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 'With his first wages Conrad bought a volume of Shakespeare, and at sea he also read
Mill's "Principles of Political Economy".' Joseph Conrad John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy Print : Book1800-1849 ‘...the Quarterly [Review], under [John Gibson] Lockhart’s management, is very different from
what it was under [William] Gifford, whose benevolence...certainly did not... Hartley Coleridge John Taylor Coleridge [articles in The Quarterly Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John W. Kaye [possibly] Administration of the East India Compan... Print : Book1850-1899 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ... Robert Browning John Westland Marston Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I never should have seen it probably, for my husband ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning John Westland Marston Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. George Eliot (pseud) John William Draper Human Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'I had to confess [to his recently returned elder
brother] that I had not read a line of his
[Darwin's] work, that with the exception of
Draper's "History of Civili... William Henry Hudson John William Draper The History of the Intellectual Development of Eur... Print : Book1900-1945 'As to "The Hist[ory] of the British Army" it is "tout bonnement admirable!". No other phrase can do justice to it.' Joseph Conrad John William Fortescue History of the British Army: Extracts from British... Print : Book1800-1849 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. Harriet Martineau John William Kaye Life and Correspondence of... Sir John Malcolm, Th... Print : Book1900-1945 'There has also been from the London Library a book called "Springs of Helicon" by Mackail —
you know, Professor of Poetry at Oxford and the man on William Morris. This... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Springs of Helicon: A Study in the Progress of... Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing
nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Life of William Morris Print : Book1700-1799 "The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of... Alexander Pope John Wilmot Earl of Rochester poems Print : Book1700-1799 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl... Samuel Johnson John Wilmot, Lord Rochester [Poems] Print : Book1700-1799 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl... John Taylor John Wilmot, Lord Rochester [Poems] Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so sev... George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodical
