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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff)?Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Ma...Print: Book
1850-1899'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Honoré de BalzacLa cousine BettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Long long evening — the children played Corelli's sonatas, I read "Guerre et Paix", felt dreadfully depressed.'Gertrude Bell Leo TolstoyWar and Peace Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr [Horatio] Brown showed us all sorts of interesting Stevenson things yesterday — particularly a little paper book of poems, with all the Stevenson grace about th...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis Stevenson?Moral EmblemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then to the Scuola of St Rocco where, with the help of the good old Ruskin, I got near to Tintoret[to].' Gertrude Bell John RuskinModern Painters, Vol. 2Print: Book
1850-1899'We were taken round the Archives by the Director. I never saw such a place as the Archives. They are in an enormous building of 4 courts, formerly a monastery, and from...Gertrude Bell  Manuscript: Letter in a bound volume of MSS
1850-1899'Round by San Vitale and Galla Placidia's tomb — such a dark beautiful blue in the morning light and home to the hotel where we met Mr Hogarth who took us to the Library ...Gertrude Bell Dante AlighieriLa Divina Commedia (Canto V)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The library was wonderfully interesting. They have the only complete MS of Aristophanes, of the 10th century, from which all the editions have been printed, Mr Hogarth r...Gertrude Bell AristophanesThe FrogsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning of it with the help of a Persian dictionary, but a L...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Biography of Hafiz]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the Renan book and am fascinated with it. It is really a beautiful book. I daresay I shall finish it before I get to London and will post it back to you. Yo...Gertrude Bell Ernest RenanunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just finished Barrie's delicious book — to my great sorrow. It is a charming little work — the only pity of it is that she could not read it! 'Gertrude Bell James Matthew Barrie?Margaret Ogilvy: by her son J. M.BarriePrint: Book
1850-1899'Uncle Frank [Lascelles] and I are reading Lord Roberts' book which is awfully interesting.' Gertrude Bell Frederick Sleigh RobertsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Florence [Lascelles] the Marshalls and I went to the [Berlin] National Gallery to see the modern pictures. It was most interesting because I had been reading about moder...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown, presumably book, exhibition catalogue or periodical
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell William Kinneard RoseWith the Greeks in ThessalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell Lionel James TrotterThe Life of John Nicholson: soldier and administra...Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell F. Marion CrawfordCorleone: A Tale of SicilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Perfectly delicious bright warm day. Sat on deck in a hot sun, pitching our tents near the L[amont]s with whom we are making friends. Began Renan's "History of the Jews"...Gertrude Bell Ernest RenanHistoire du peuple d'Israël Print: Book
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell Victor HugoLes MisérablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Arabic texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with nothing but brown scrub upon them. It sometimes doesn't...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[novel in Spanish]Print: Book


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