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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith James Beattie'Minstrel, The'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and got through 80 pages, taking notes. He seems a more...George Grote Voltaire 'Miracles'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followed by a "real" Missionary magazine, which I have also...Edward Morgan Forster 'Missionary magazine'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840: 'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till my return to town, for your kindness in sending me ...Caroline Norton H. Nelson Coleridge'Modern English Poetesses'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807: 'I find Modern Europe really very entertaining, at least as much as is quite i...Lady Harriet Cavendish Russell'Modern Europe'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843: 'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last January in which is your Chinese paper, & fell upon a...Elizabeth Barrett Julia Pardoe'Modern Turkish Travellers'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few mar...Wilfred Owen Paul Verlaine'Mon Reve Familier'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at the Speddings' (Mirehouse, by Bassenthwaite Lake) he ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Morte d'Arthur'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte d'Arthur'. John learned a lot of poetry by heart an...John Betjeman Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Morte d'Arthur'Print: Book
1800-1849'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editor...Emily Shore Edmund Spenser'Mother Hubbard's Tale'Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the first ascent of the Rothorn. R.B. Graham circulated sn...Charles Evans Geoffrey Young [?]'Mountain Playmates'Print: Book
1850-1899"I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary."Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB)Unknown
1800-1849'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway SongsBowly groupRobert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol]'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and GallUnknown
1850-1899'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it wi...Harriet Martineau Matthew Arnold'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Nachgefuhl'Print: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissu...Hugh Walpole Arnold Bennett'New Age' articlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall on printed matter, so long denied us by our own wri...Virginia Woolf 'new novels'Print: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Emily Brontë'No Coward Soul Is Mine'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestl...James Hogg 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinbu...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodio...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett Martin'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).


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