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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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1800-1849		?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu...Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel LeeThe Rival Queens, or The Death of AlexanderPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.Mr and Mrs WiganRichard Brinsley SheridanThe RivalsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The" River of Cathay" is good; it is right; perfectly right; right in tone and in expression. It pleased me much.' Joseph Conrad Ernest DawsonThe River of Cathay Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Rudyard KiplingThe River's TaleUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		"[S. T.] C[oleridge] stayed up until one o'clock in the morning to read Tytler's translation of The Robbers ... "Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... ; "The Robbers" and two ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Friedrich] SchillerThe robbers [and two other plays]Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 18 April 1802: 'I went to drink tea at Luff's ... William met me at Rydale ... We sate up late ... He met me with the conclu...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Robin and the ButterflyManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of the Forty-Five Churches Fund of the Diocese of London,...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Rock. A Pageant PlayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two h...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Roll CallPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two h...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettThe Roll CallManuscript: proofs
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841: 'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine things in it -- very -- but it wants continuity, in...Elizabeth Barrett John A. HeraudThe Roman Brother: A TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's HistoryAdam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged...Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews.Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof.Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under ...Adam Mackie Charles RollinThe Roman HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Ann RadcliffeThe Romance of the ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Coldish this morning, with the tiny oil-stove and no boiler — fire till after dark. I have been reading The Romance of War! and am now finishing this [i.e., the d...Ernest William Hornung James GrantThe Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in SpainPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have had a pleasant, lazy morning reading old James Grant's Romance of War!. I expect the romance was always under one's own cap and tunic.'Ernest William Hornung James GrantThe Romance of War: Or, the Highlanders in SpainPrint: Book


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