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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch" dated April 3rd, 1918 - the very week in which our...Vera Brittain Owen SeamanThe Soul of a Nation Print: Serial / periodical, magazine
1850-1899
1900-1945		Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Zealand and Australian soliders in South Africa during...New Zealand and Australian soldiersMarie CorelliThe Soul of LilithPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:

'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep ...		Charlotte Brontë Francis William NewmanThe Soul: Her Sorrows and her Aspirations: an Essa...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your prose volume (kindly vouchsafed me in the little copy...Henry James Robert Louis StevensonThe South SeasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Weak and tired and inclined as always when out of action and interest, to go to pieces. Read, after twenty years, Merriman's miserable "[The] Sowers", Psalms and John ii...Ronald Storrs Henry Seton Merriman (pseud)The SowersPrint: Book
1900-1945'After lunch sat in study read paper and "The Sowers."'Verena Vera Pennefather Henry Seton MerrimanThe SowersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Bruce Dilks Joseph AddisonThe Spacious Firmament on HighUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

[...]

The following essays wer...		Mary E. Robson Bruce DilksThe Spacious FirmamentsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Sunday, 19 July 1829: 'I read the Spae-wife of Galt. There is something good in it and the language is occasionally very forcible but he has made his story difficult t...Walter Scott John GaltThe SpaewifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ?Daily Post? criticism on poor casting. Quite ri...Gerald Moore R.H. MottramThe Spanish FarmPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dryden's comedy of the Spanish Fryar, was not much pleased with it.'Joseph Hunter John DrydenThe Spanish FryarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourages me'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)The Spanish GipsyManuscript: Sheet, MS of own work
1850-1899'It was strange that, as a girl of fifteen, my greatest friend should have been this Colonel Berkeley. The thirty years difference in our ages did not seem to matter. He ...Zoe Procter George EliotThe Spanish GipsyPrint: Book
1600-1699'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended much.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MiddletonThe Spanish GypsyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902: 'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts of 500 lines each, it will not be the longest play on...Leonard Woolf Thomas KydThe Spanish TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter William EnfieldThe SpeakerPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding unknownThe SpecialistPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book


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