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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha...William John Brown Jules VerneAround the World in Eighty DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'She[a distant Polish relative of Conrad]spoke of you, told me you were her cousin, that you always loved reading Jules Verne's travels, etc., etc.'Joseph Conrad Jules Verneunknown (see notes below)Print: Book
1900-1945'Today has been uneventful and we go into new trenches at 9.30 tonight. It is one mass of mud here now but will soon dry up with the sun. We shall be six days in th...Arthur Oscar Hornung Jules VerneMichael Strogoff: The Courier of the CzarPrint: Book
1850-1899'David Watson, M.A. of St. Andrews University, used to spend every spare moment of his day and whole Sundays on end with this writer [Ford] standing beside him at his p...Ford Madox Ford Jules VerneLes Enfants du capitaine GrantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lottie's kind of reading, though I could manage it, was not mine; it was usually fiction conducive of the domestic virtues. At the club, my father discovered a num...Edmund Blunden Jules VerneThe Mysterious IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Print: Book
1850-1899Read "Nathalie" by Julia KavanaghAlbert Battiscombe Julia KavanaghNathaliePrint: Book
1850-1899'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'Mary Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...'Mary Gladstone Julia KavanaghAdelePrint: Book
1850-1899'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe...William Ewart Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting'Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) GaskellJulia KavanaghRachel GrayPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julia Kavanagh[possibly] French Women of LettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:

'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghMadeleinePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Julia Kavanagh, 21 January 1851:

'I fear you will have thought hard things of me ere this — pronounced me ungrateful [...] but th...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghNathaliePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:

'I ought long since to have acknowledged the gratification with which I read Miss Kavanagh's "Women of C...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghWomen of ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 9 March 1853:

'I have tried to read "Daisy Burns"; at the close of the Ist Vol. I stopped. I must not give an opinion o...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghDaisy Burns (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last January in which is your Chinese paper, & fell upon a...Elizabeth Barrett Julia Pardoe'Modern Turkish Travellers'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You asked me about the ''Message of Israel''. I believe no books now affect me any more than by a transient interest. It did draw my attention to some sublime bits in th...Emma Darwin Julia WedgwoodThe Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criti...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'John Ruskin Julia Cecilia StrettonLady of GlynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'finished "Lady of Glynne".'John Ruskin Julia Cecilia StrettonLady of GlynnePrint: Book


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