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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read Pot-Bouille. Pot-Bouille made me laugh, there is one good character.'Robert Louis Stevenson Emile ZolaPot-BouillePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have read your Ronins Fideles.'Robert Louis Stevenson Bernard Marie Henri GausseronLes Fideles RoninsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just finished reading your last book..'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean HowellsA Modern InstancePrint: Book
1850-1899'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and re...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[article in Edinburgh Courant]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Monthly Cricket ... Summed; good reading, best I've seen as a whole; shaky on the pictures.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article (a fine article it was too; […]'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordReview of 'The Unseen Universe or Physical Specula...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article.
1850-1899'My dear Charlie, I’m a rogue and should have written to you months ago; but I have been both busy and worried. As to your paper, no, it won’t do: you ask an opinion, and...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson Unknown
1850-1899[Letter]

'I have got ''Mr Hogarth's Will'', and find it too dull, so we have only Hepworth Dixon's ''America'' and old Jesse's ''George III.'', which is comfor...		Emma Darwin Catherine Helen SpenceMr Hogarth's WillPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter]

'You were quite right in telling me I should like Bunsen if I persevered. [...] It is consoling to read such an intensely happy life as his was from b...		Emma Darwin Frances, Baroness BunsenMemoirs of Baron BunsenPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full o...Emma Darwin William Ewart GladstoneEngland's MissionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full o...Emma Darwin William Rathbone GregIs popular judgement in politics more just than th...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic SoulieLa LionnePrint: Book
1850-1899'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion.'Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic SoulieLa Comtesse de MonrionPrint: Book
1850-1899'From the toshie Soulie I have unearthed another flawed jewel of energy and drunken Genius: - La Lionne, followed by La Comtesse de Monrion... I have also read a play by ...Robert Louis Stevenson Frederic SoulieLe Fils de la FollePrint: Book
1850-1899'Stevenson's Monthly Cricket.'Robert Louis Stevenson Magazine of ArtPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know the Chiffonier of Paris by F. Pyat — O my lad, that a melo! what a melo!'Robert Louis Stevenson Felix PyatChiffonier de Paris
1850-1899'Inclosed [sic] please find XXX to XXXV of Songs of Innocence ... If a man wishes to live forever and be happy, let him write Songs of Innocence: I cannot tell you how ha...Robert Louis Stevenson William BlakeSongs of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I had a letter from America, and the party who buttered me so free in last Century is, it appears, one J. C. Bunner.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[review of New Arabian Nights in Century]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Century in question .. the November one ... contains Howell's very good natured and sensible article about James ...'Robert Louis Stevenson William Dean Howells[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book


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