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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Woo...Winifred Agnes Moore Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell you at once what I think. It is a bad translation . ....Arnold Bennett Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see what he says about flowers & have found that he spea...John Clare William ShakespeareThe SonnetsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThe Sons and OthersPrint: Book
1700-1799Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.Gertrude Savile (Sir) John DenhamThe Sophy OR Poems and TranslationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Veit WeberThe Sorcerer: A Tale from the GermanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Veit WeberThe Sorcerer: A Tale from the GermanPrint: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]Alfred Hitchcock Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell you about your delightful books which were invaluabl...Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945"Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work o...Rupert Brooke Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazzled my good man. He desires me to keep the letter fo...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WerterPrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my frequent perusals of Werter have been attended. for s...Robert Southey Johann Wilhelm von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary E. Robson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Janet Rawlings Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I was too severe on Newman ... There are many striking, wise and good things in the first part of his book, so that the latter falls on you with the shock of a sh...Jessie Sismondi Francis William NewmanThe SoulPrint: Book
1900-1945'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsThe Soul of a BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a Bishop]'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsThe Soul of a BishopPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Soul of a Bishop", containing some good meat as always, and thinnish plot.'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsThe Soul of a Bishop: A novel (with just a little ...Print: Book


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