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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'',and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.'Emma Darwin George BrimleyEssays, by the Late George BrimleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Brimley's ''Essay on Tennyson'', and I really think it will set me on reading some of his poems.' [But, she added later] 'My reading of Tennyson is come to ...Emma Darwin Alfred, Lord TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank goodness I have nearly finished [Stanley's] ''Darkest Africa'' and it must be the most tiresome book in the world, so confused and diffuse, with immense long conve...Emma Darwin Henry Morton StanleyIn Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retre...Print: Book
1850-1899'The correspondence of Lord Grey and Princess Lieven is as good as history ... There is never a tinge of vanity or coquetry in her letters. His are solemn and dry though ...Emma Darwin The Correspondence of Princess Lieven and George G...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French, als...Emma Darwin James Russell LowellLiterary EssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French,also...Emma Darwin John Campbell Shairp?Aspects of PoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, w...Emma Darwin unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We read ''Severn's Life'' which does very well. He is a rather foolish man, and talks of Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption...'Emma Darwin William SharpThe Life and Letters of J. SevernPrint: Book
1850-1899'These last letters of Johnson are a treat to me. I enjoy poking out bits of news in them.'Emma Darwin Samuel JohnsonLetters of Samuel Johnson, LLD
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Henry JamesUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our ''stiff'' book is H. James' stories and our ''light'' one Leslie Stephen's ''Hours in a Library'' 3rd series. He is so pleasant after all that subtlety.'Emma Darwin Leslie StephenHours in a LibraryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...'Emma Darwin Henry Crabb RobinsonDiary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have received the Paradox; I am thinking, I can make something of it, but must first be better.'Robert Louis Stevenson Denis DiderotThe Paradox of ActingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read Maxime; but mark you further — I have never read anything else ... By the way, I have read Maxime du Camp.'Robert Louis Stevenson Maxime du CampSouvenirs LitterairesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I ought to tell you that I read with sincere admiration your very dignified paper on sculptors.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Living English Sculptors'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Were you to re-read some Balzac, as I have been doing, it would greatly help to clear your eyes.'Robert Louis Stevenson Honore de Balzac[general reference to Balzac's works]Print: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Algernon SwinburnePoems and BalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan George SaintsburyEssays on French NovelistsPrint: Book


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