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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but they do it in a very slight manner.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have laid sufficient [? stress] on the positive qualities o...Arnold Bennett W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and SixpencePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding John SteinbeckThe Moon is DownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".'Vera Brittain John SteinbeckThe Moon is DownPrint: Book
1850-1899The Moonstone is frightfully interesting; isn't the detective prime?Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe MoonstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 4 January 1851:

'I found your note and "The Moorland Cottage," of which last I have only as yet read the commencemen...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellThe Moorland CottageUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 22 January 1851:

'You are thrice thanked — first, for the real treat afforded by "The Moorland Cottage." I told ...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellThe Moorland CottagePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.'Emma Darwin Frances Julia WedgwoodThe Moral Ideal, a Historic StudyPrint: Book
1600-1699'At Sturbridge faire last, having by chance loo[k]ed on Mr Whately, Bishop Andrewes, and Mr Perkins on the commandments (in which I owne a secret hand of God) I was clear...Isaac Archer Lancelot AndrewesThe Moral Law ExpoundedPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846 ?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L...Ellen Heaton Rebecca HeyThe Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ...Print: Book
1900-1945‘You give no address so I forward the "Morals [of Marcus Ordeyne", W. J. Locke] to Alpenrose. You will like to read it in London. I feel rather limp this morning—coul...Wilfred Owen William John LockeThe Morals of Marcus OrdeynePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge George LavingtonThe Moravians compared and detectedPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe...Henry James Elizabeth Drew StoddardThe MorgesonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been discussion in ye. Courier & I read in ye. Mo[rning] Po...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the contradiction of a paragraph copied from the Durham p...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in one of his amatory epistles compared himself to Chi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849'The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerning some foul play in a late transaction. [transcribe...Benjamin Newton n/aThe Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh! the injustice ...William Richard Grahame n/aThe Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliamentary Review" on the state of the public mind and th...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "Morning Chronicle"'.Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper


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