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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Strong breeze and weather agreeable so far from Karachi. Green's "History", Macaulay, Ruskin, "Oxford Book [of English Verse]" and Horace every day.'Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'So we lay all day in the rolling swell, fair in the blast of the dried fish; reading John vii, Odyssey xxiv, a mutilated copy of "Middlemarch" and late man pages of the ...Ronald Storrs The Oxford Book of English VersePrint: Book
1900-1945'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'Katherine Mansfield variousThe Oxford English DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have probably read too.'Clive Staples Lewis Horace Annesley VachellThe Paladin, as Beheld by a Woman of TemperamentPrint: Book
1850-1899?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in...Leslie Stephen The Pall MallPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper entitled "What is Sport?" being a diatribe against t...Leonard Woolf The Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron The PamphleteerPrint: Serial / periodical
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
1700-1799'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [italics] A parallel between Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Phil...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown]The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Saturday August 19th. [...] Read Parents Offering. [...] Do a Latin exercise from the Odyssey.' Claire Clairmont Caroline BarnardThe Parent's Offering; or Tales for ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni...John Masefield Geoffrey ChaucerThe Parliament of FowlsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803Print: Book
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 Parliamentary ReviewPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In 1876 Aubrey de Vere aranged for Alice Thompson ... and her sister Elizabeth a visit to [Tennyson at] Aldworth ... Alice was ready with her selection when the offer to...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Passing of ArthurUnknown
1850-1899'In March [1892] he [Tennyson] recovered his voice [which had failed him during January] [...] He read "The Passing of Arthur" to Lord Houghton (now Lord Crewe) and his s...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Passing of ArthurUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I am too impatient to let you know [italics]how[end it...Henry James H. G. WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Marriage?certainly more homogeneous?& about as good as ...Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book
1900-1945'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I like this Digs far better than the Queen’s Hotel life. It is the first time I ever shared rooms, in the Keats-Brown manner. I confess [2/Lt A. R.] Rickard is not k...Wilfred Owen Herbert George WellsThe Passionate FriendsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G...George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others)The Passionate PilgrimPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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