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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I send you a characteristic letter from John Collier, which please keep for me. I suspected Pollock from the first; but did not think Collier himself had had a hand in i...Robert Louis Stevenson John Collier Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a few of us.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsAnimi FiguraManuscript: Proof copy
1850-1899'Thank you heartily for the Bible, which is exquisite.'Robert Louis Stevenson BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading some of Wordsworth ... I think 'Tintern Abbey' is quite lovely. It seems to me Wordsworth has got a most wonderful way of putting into words feel...Emily Lytton William WordsworthTintern AbbeyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of re...Joseph Conrad Anthony TrollopePhineas Finn: The Irish MemberPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to your verses. May I keep them? Of course now you say you will not finish the poem — and it may be true — now.[...] But its charm and music are for me. I have read i...Joseph Conrad Edward Lancelot SandersonAn Episode of Southern SeasManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".'Joseph Conrad Henry NormanThe Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels a...Print: Book
1850-1899'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.'Joseph Conrad John MillarBooks: A Guide to Good ReadingPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the vol entitled "Lear of the Steppes" only the first story is really worth reading. The other two ["Acia" and "Faust"] Turg[enev] wrote in French I believe first an...Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Lear of the Steppes and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I can see myself now, seated on the nursery floor, hugging my doll while I read "The Peep of Day". Religion held no terrors for me.'Emily Lytton F. L. BevanThe Peep of DayPrint: Book
1850-1899'George, George, you are detected, and if you do not immediately drink a bottle of Burgundy (to my health and Pepys's) you will certainly be damned.'Robert Louis Stevenson George SaintsburyReview of Familiar Studies in Pall Mall GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazet...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The best of the present French novelists seems to me, incomparably, Daudet. Les Rois en Exil comes very near to being a masterpiece.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alphonse DaudetLes Rois en ExilPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever read Southey's Life of Wesley? I am reading it just now and an [sic] painfully impressed — I might say depressed.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert SoutheyThe Life of Wesley, and the Rise and Progress of M...Print: Book
1850-1899'I liked your John Brown.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyReview in Academy (11 March 1882)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'... read Fortune by Sea and Land written by Tho, Heywood W. Rowley It is so sweet'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Heywood and William RowleyFortune by Land and SeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Talking about G. Meredith, I have just re-read for the third and fourth time The Egoist.'Robert Louis Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Woman Killed with Kindness is one of the most striking novels — not plays, though it's more of a play than anything else of his — I ever read.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas HeywoodA Woman Killed with KindnessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Le Livre — i.e. Joseph Knight — Has reviewed my books aright.'Robert Louis Stevenson Knight Joseph[Review in Le Livre]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Tyas Cook[review in Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical


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