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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Alexandre DumasTulipe NoirePrint: 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 Guy De MaupassantunknownPrint: 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 Victor Hugo 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 Pierre Jules Théophile GautierunknownPrint: 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 Andrew LangLectures on LiteraturePrint: 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 Philip Gilbert HamertonThe Intellectual LifePrint: 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 Robert BridgesunknownPrint: 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 Henry JamesMadonna of the FuturePrint: 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 Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot resist the desire to thank you for one of the finest & loftiest works of historical imagination I have ever read.'Henry E. Card (?) Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray make what use you like of the letter I wrote regarding Ben-Hur, to Lady Eardley. Few books that I have read have given me greater pleasure and I thoroughly appreci...John Vertue Lew WallaceBen-HurPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, what an admirable book is All Sorts and Conditions of Men. I have rarely read anything with greater sympathy ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter BesantAll Sorts and Conditions of MenPrint: Book
1850-1899'... the work has come, and a very portly tome it is; and I have already read Lodge and Webster...'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse Print: Book
1850-1899'I am grown to like Lowell much better at the end. He adores London and its climate especially, and the Parks and the thrushes all winter through.'Emma Darwin unknown LowellUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am deep in ''Dean Stanley's Life'' and I like it so much.'Emma Darwin R. E. & G. G. Prothero & BradleyThe Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stan...Print: Book
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'Augustus Hare's ''Two Noble Lives'' is most entertaining and pleasant, though the letters are merely natural, and telling what happens without a spark of wit and humour....Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. HareThe Story of Two Noble Lives: being Memories of Ch...Print: Book
1850-1899''I have been reading Waldstein's ''Ruskin''. The admiring part I did not feel up to, but the chapter on social questions delights me as speaking so strongly of his narro...Emma Darwin Charles WaldsteinThe Work of John Ruskin: Its influence on Modern T...Print: Book
1850-1899'I believe you would like Mrs Craven if you could skip all the religion. In the year '86 she has exactly our feelings about Ireland and [the] G.O.M.'s mad folly.'Emma Darwin Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé CravenUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The French stories by Julliot are dull and odious, and the little novel ''La Folle du Logis'' quite pretty and nice. How very odd the French are.'Emma Darwin Francois de Julliot?Terre de FrancePrint: Book


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