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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 2 January and 28 February 1887] 'Until [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] eyes were uncovered [following operation on 9 January] Maria [daught...Maria [nee Guest] William Shakespeare Print: Book
1850-18993 April 1887: 'Today I have been tempted to open old journals of 54 years ago. Many of the circumstances to which allusion is made in them, are now forgotten, and al...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals of c.1833Manuscript: Unknown
1850-18994 April 1887: 'Woke early and resumed the reading [from 3 April] of the old journal. What strikes me most is that I speak several times of being tired, and once of h...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charlotte Bertie Guestjournals Manuscript: Unknown
1850-18991 October 1887: 'Henry [Layard, son-in-law] has given me the revises of a new book on his early travels, which Murray is about to bring out, and I have been reading ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Henry Layard'book on his early travels'Print: In proofs from John Murray
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889] 'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian history and art, was one of the English colony who ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horatio BrownVenetian StudiesPrint: Book
1850-1899[between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889, concerning period following Easter 1888] 'In order to save her eyes, which now increasingly troubled ... Nollekens and his TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899[following journal entry for 19 February 1889] 'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanche, dined and read to her the article on Lord Beacons...Blanche Countess of Bessborough Henry Layardarticle on Lord BeaconsfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Mr Upton The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Mr Upton 'book'Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...Miss Moody texts including 'some memoirs' Print: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 6 November 1889 and 2 Jun 1890] 'From one till two every day, a Mr. Upton came to read to [Lady Charlotte Schreiber], first the Times and ...William ShakespeareplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more particularly than I can from memory; […] I was very mu...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinBret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Catherine Spence Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Did you − I forget − did you have a kick at the stern works of that melancholy puppy and humbug Daniel Deronda himself? − the Prince of Prigs: the lite...Robert Louis Stevenson George EliotDaniel DerondaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodio...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett Martin'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).
1850-1899'Please, if you have not, and I don’t suppose you have, already read it, institute a search in all Melbourne for one of the rarest and certainly one of the best of books ...Robert Louis Stevenson Samuel RichardsonClarissa: or The History of a Young Lady.Print: Book
1850-1899'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, against the very bad, or very stupid, or else both, ...Robert Louis Stevenson Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de Print: Poster
1850-1899'I am at the Inland Voyage again [...] The Preface shall stand over, as you suggest, until the last and then, sir, we shall see.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Yes, I think David Douglas would be all right; so Massons, Frasers, Skeltons and Coggie Ferrier. I’ll see if I can think of any others;[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The truth of the matter is that it is you who have opened my eyes to the value and quality of Turgeniev. As a boy I remember reading "Smoke" in a Polish translation (a f...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevSmokePrint: newspaper supplement/magazine ('feuilleton')


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