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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 TurgenevA Nest of GentlefolksPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think Georgie’s idea about the impropriety of Marjory sending for Will on her deathbed so lunatic, so furious, so truly wicked and silly that I don’t know what to say ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I read the preface once a day about, tell Nestor so much.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevenson 
1850-1899'We have had no cold weather yet for me to take care in. I am well; I am a kind of tea-totaler[sic] and often take nothing but chocolate at night. [...]I have written to ...Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Isabella Stevenson Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am so sorry to hear you have trouble too; fortunately there is no need to bother about Paris, things having been comfortably arranged without. And indeed F. is too unw...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Received. The book. Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul. Thanks a million times for your ten pounds. There was absolutely not a penny going.[…] I hope to God th...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Have signed and sent off agreement with Paul.'Robert Louis Stevenson  Manuscript: Letter, UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'I was never forbidden but once in my life to read any book, and that was by my stupid governess, who forbade me to read 'Old St. Paul's', by Harrison Ainsworth... I prom...Emily Lytton Harrison AinsworthOld St. Paul'sPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter] 'I make C. Buxton's book quite my Bible at present. He hits so many small nails on the head that suit my feelings and opinions so exactly, and I think he is so ...Emma Darwin Charles BuxtonNotes of ThoughtPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... 'Emma Darwin Pierre LanfreyHistory of Napoleon IPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter] 'I am taking to some of the St Beuve ''Causeries'', and find them very pleasant, especially anything about the time of Louis XIV always amuses me...'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte-BeuveCauseries du lundi (Monday Chats)Print: Book, Newspaper
1850-1899'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; and have looked over it with interest and pleasure—certa...Thomas Carlyle Robert StoryThe Poetical Works Of Robert StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in Suffolk, of which place he was rector. The good man h...anon Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'a strange book, full of ability, chartism, some blasphemy and infidelity, but on the whole a useful book for the upper classes to read — not the lower'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Neander's life of Christ. There is much that seems to me rather mystical & very German, obscure at times, & it is obviously very ill-translated, ...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Augustus NeanderLife of Jesus ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'very clever, useful, & searching, but obscure, uphill, & with the great disadvantage of long dialogues with the part of the objector stated by the author who means to co...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry RogersThe Eclipse of FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the face of such topics, how can I grovel any longer? Do I not feel the thraldom & restlessness of worldly ambitions… Lord, save me from double-mindedness'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Henry MelvillSermon on the ResurrectionPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Very clear & convincing — not indeed to be answered. O that my faith may grow more settled as my devotion becomes more warm'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle William PaleyHorae PaulinaePrint: Book
1850-1899'a greater mixture of very good & very bad that I remember to have read — great occasional beauty of thought & language, greater still in the delineation of charact...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charlotte BrontëVilettePrint: Book
1850-1899From Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Vol II, pp.307-309):

'"Kingsley, in a letter to Mrs Gaskell, rejoices that he had never expre...		Charles Kingsley Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book


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