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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Autumn departs- but still his mantles fold...' [transcript of text] 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Stranger! if e'er thine ardent...' [transcript of text] 'Lord of the Isles 14th Canto'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent to Byron by [John] Murray [his publisher]. It they d...Lord and Lady ByronWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of Janaury 1815 Blackwood wrote to Murray that he had seen Ballantyne, and found a copy of "Guy Mannering" lying on his table [from which Ballantyne h...William Blackwood Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 January 1816:] 'Read Lord of the Isles again.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the Isles (Canto One)Unknown
1800-1849'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'.Mary Godwin Walter ScottThe Lord of the Isles: a poemPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm sure you have read "A Lost Dominion" — what a remarkable book! Well compare the picture there given with the views of our untutored Arab shaikhs and tell me if...Gertrude Bell A. Carthill (= al-katil. pseud. C. Kennedy)The Lost DominionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene” Northcourt Avenue. 31st March 1942. S. A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed. [...] 4. The...Francis E. Pollard Harold Beresford ButlerThe Lost Peace: A personal ImpressionPrint: Book
1850-1899'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street. We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think wonderful in a way.'Joseph Conrad Neil MunroThe Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945Thurs. Lovely day. Read Lost World by Conan Doyle. Nil [i.e., no mail].William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Lost WorldPrint: Book
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Lotos-EatersUnknown
1850-1899'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'Albert Battiscombe Frances TrollopeThe Lottery of Marriage. A novel.Print: Book
1850-1899'By the way what awful trash Tennyson's serial poetry is just now. To think of the man who wrote the 'Lotus Eaters' 'St Simeon Stylites' et caetera.'Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred TennysonThe Lotus Eaters/St Simeon StylitesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of ...John Marsh [n/a]The LoungerPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreThe Love of the AngelsPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad...Leslie Paul Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns EliotThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing ...Alexander Kinglake Margaret OliphantThe Lover and his LassPrint: Book


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