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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward CookThe Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1.Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward CookThe Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2.Print: Book
1850-1899'I am deep in ''Maurice'', and if I could keep to my resolution of never even trying to understand him, I should quite enjoy the book.'Emma Darwin Frederick Maurice, (ed.)The Life of Frederick Denison Maurice. Chiefly tol...Print: Book
1850-1899

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! — At 34 ...

Sidney Biddell and 'Sonie' [also Biddell?] The Life of George Eliot (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry ScougalThe Life of God in the Soul of Man OR The Nature aPrint: Book
1700-1799'"The Female Quixote" is written by a woman...Lennox her name. Her husband and she have often visited me together. Do you not think, however her heroine over-acts her par...Samuel Richardson Charlotte LennoxThe Life of Harriet Stuart, Written by HerselfPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing Neander's Life of Christ, and I believe I have derived good from it. I did not clearly understand his reasoning on miracles ... but every now and the...Fanny Allen Johann August W. NeanderThe Life of Jesus Christ
1800-1849Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ.Adam Mackie John FleetwoodThe Life of Jesus Christ, together with the livesPrint: Book
1800-1849At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the time reading the Life of Christ, a work that suggests ...Adam Mackie John FleetwoodThe Life of Jesus Christ, together with the livesPrint: Book
1800-1849Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same...Adam Mackie John FleetwoodThe Life of Jesus Christ, together with the livesPrint: Book
1800-1849Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ]Adam Mackie John FleetwoodThe Life of Jesus Christ, together with the livesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am goi...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas AmoryThe Life of John BunclePrint: Book
1700-1799'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my friend to imagine with what eagerness and pleasure I re...James Lackington Thomas AmoryThe life of John BunclePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas AmoryThe Life of John Buncle, EsqPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell Lionel James TrotterThe Life of John Nicholson: soldier and administra...Print: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Thomas CarlyleThe Life of John SterlingPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will come this morning. He was a maker of dialect dixeries:...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth WrightThe Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a passage I have not found. Read the 4th. vol. of W. ...George Gordon Lord Byron William RoscoeThe Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnific...Print: Book
1700-1799'Began with eagerness, and read, with increasing avidity, the first four Chapters of Roscoe's "Life of Lorenzo de Medici"...'Thomas Green William RoscoeThe life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnifi...Print: Book


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