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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 February, 1802: '... we read the first part of the poem [ie The Prelude] and were delighted with it ...'Dorothy and William WordsworthWilliam WordsworthThe PreludeManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936: 'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good, so succulent, so suggestive, that I have to hoard...Virginia Woolf William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road 14/4/31
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5 The subject of Wordsworth was then taken[.]...		Reginald H. Robson William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending ...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turky'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner away home, Mr Brisband along with me as far as the Temple; and there looked upon a new book, set out by one Rycault, secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman Empire By Paul Ry...Print: Book
1900-1945‘See … p. 54 "Sphere" for a good peep at Swinburne. Dam disgusting, excuse me … Have you seen Arnold Bennett’s "Pretty Lady". Fortunately I just secured my copy befor...Wilfred Owen Arnold BennettThe Pretty LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you think Stephen will be home for Christmas? His story in B. ["Blackwood's Magazine"] is magnificent. It is the very best thing he has done since "The Red Badge [of ...Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneThe Price of the HarnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.George Eliot [pseud.] Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince (probably)Print: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is...Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mary YongeThe Prince and the PagePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Charlotte Mary Yonge The Prince and the Page: A story of the last Crusa...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ...Helen Crawfurd Alfred Lord TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end italics]: 'Like most other people (whom I have met wit...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1800-1849From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hallam, youngest son to the great historian [...] I was ...Francis Turner Palgrave Alfred TennysonThe PrincessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...'Elinor Glyn George MacDonaldThe Princess and the GoblinPrint: Book


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