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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...	Joseph Conrad	H.(Herbert) G. (George) Wells	The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents	Print: Book
	1850-1899	"Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c...	Winnie Seerbohm	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...	Chester Armstrong	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday ...	Noel Odell	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851: 'The "Stones of Venice" seem nobly laid and chiselled. How grandly the "Quarry" of vast marbles is disclo...	Charlotte Brontë	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'At St. Servan I became extravagant and purchased myself a birthday present for 4 francs. Ruskin's 'Stones of Venice'. I had no prose reading with me, and one can hav...	Thomas Edward Lawrence	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Scroggs came back from Pontorson by train, but I rode, [bicycle] and thereby saved 3 francs 50 cent. Another 50 cent. and I will have paid for my Ruskins. I like his ...	Thomas Edward Lawrence	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Next morning. My Ruskin is better than ever. I will have him bound in Oxford, or will bind him myself. It gives a most masterly exposition of the meaning and method ...	Thomas Edward Lawrence	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins as 'weak men' with 'no serious influence on the gener...	Edward Morgan Forster	John Ruskin	The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Spent a quiet day at home. Read "The Story of a Life" by Sherer; a powerfully written book with vivid description and truth of portraiture, both as to human character an...	Charlotte Bury	Joseph Moyle Sherer	The Story of a Life. By the Author of Scenes and I...	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last evenings in your so interesting and vivid society w...	Henry James	Viscount Garnet Wolseley	The Story of a Soldier's Life	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face...	anon	Olive Schreiner	The Story of an African Farm	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in my hands.'	Vera Brittain	Olive Schreiner	The Story of an African Farm	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded works, but from casual glances into one or two of the...	Arnold Bennett	Mrs. Humphry Ward	The Story of Bessie Cottrell	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	(1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which...	Clive Staples Lewis	Lucius Apuleius	The Story of Cupid and Psyche	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Started at 11 from Victoria. [...]. Very prosperous journey — smooth, fine. I read "Francis Cludde" which is most exciting and interesting. Reached Paris at 7.30.'...	Gertrude Bell	Stanley John Weyman	The Story of Francis Cludde	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Anecdotish dinner; bed about 10, where read Milton's "P[aradise] L[ost] and Watson's "Jerusalem".'	Ronald Storrs	Charles Moore Watson	The Story of Jerusalem	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'	Katherine Mansfield		The story of Jonah and the Whale	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Have been reading a book in the modern manner about Moses. Cannot help but see a parallel between Churchill and Moses — and between us and the Children of Israel. In ...	Vere Hodgson	Elspeth Boog-Watson	The Story of Moses	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'One smiles at the vision of the gentle Richard Jefferies slaughtering wild cattle in the palaeolithic way, but that feeling and desire which he describes with such...	William Henry Hudson	Richard Jefferies	The Story of My Heart	Print: Book

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