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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from which cover topics including the writings of Pater, Kipl...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Letters of Henry James (vol.I)Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Junius" The Letters of JuniusPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldThe Letters of Katherine MansfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Madame de Maintenon's letters, and though I have neither respect nor admiration for her character, I find so many sentiments and feelings that I have myself...Elizabeth Wedgwood MaintenonThe Letters of Madame de Maintenon
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévigné's letters.Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SévignéThe Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter ...Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admirable advice!), "The Chevalier is of more use to the ...Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de SévignéThe Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the Browning Letters — rather a feat for Active Ser...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my part to get through them. Felt that if I had been in ...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I could have written a better love letter myself in sp...Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my spare time.' Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.'Robert Lindsay Mackay Robert BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barre...Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'We were coasting down Corsica — I saw it out of my bathroom window — in perfect weather, mild and calm and sunny. We passed through the Straits of Bonifac[c]...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonThe Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his famil...Print: Book
1900-1945'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes on Political Science, she found for her quotation pag...Winifred Holtby Thomas HobbesThe LeviathanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836: 'I remember daring to say to Sir Uvedale Price that I could not like Crabbe; and I remember -- how well! his ...Uvedale Price George CrabbeThe LibraryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangThe LibraryPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Hang'd. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted stPrint: Book
1800-184914/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'Amelia Opie John GaltThe Life and administration of Cardinal WolseyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing. John Drummond Erskine Joseph EminThe life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenia...Print: Book


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