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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie-Jeanne RolandMemoirs of Madame RolandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: 'Have you seen Madame Rolands Appel a l’impartiale Posteritè? it is one of those books that makes me love individuals & yet dre...Robert Southey Marie-Jeanne Roland de la PlatiereAppel a l’Impartiale Posteritè Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying...Maria Edgeworth Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la PlatiereMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of...George Gordon Lord Byron Marino Sanuto"Italian history of the Doges of Venice"Print: Book
1850-1899'Home to tea. Read some of Fratesi's [sic] "In Provincia" which I think is very good. Awfully cold.' Gertrude Bell Mario PratesiIn provincia: novelle e bozzettiPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Pattie Stansfield Marion CranThe Story of my RuinPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Marion Crawford Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Marion CrawfordunknownPrint: 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 Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsCross CreekPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Victor Alexander Marjorie C. Cole[letter expressing interest in the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter Mark AkensidePleasures of the Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists"....Thomas Carter Mark Akenside[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male contemporary who claimed never to have read or studi...Anna Seward Mark Akenside[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...Thomas Carlyle Mark AkensideNight ThoughtsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 30-31 December 1793: 'Akenside & Lucan are my pocket companions. you would be astonishd at the number of volumes I have read i...Robert Southey Mark AkensidePleasures of the ImaginationPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "A...James Boswell Mark AkensidePleasures of Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "I see they have published a splendid edition of Akenside's works. One bad ode may be suffered; but a number of them together makes one sick." Boswell. "A...Samuel Johnson Mark AkensidePleasures of Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you there saw a man constantly at work in literature". ...Samuel Johnson Mark Akenside[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until after eleven o'clock though I did little more than ski...John Buckley Castieau Mark LemonWait for the EndPrint: Unknown
1700-1799I drew out of a book entitled 'a genealogical History of the Present Royal Families of Europe' the pedigree of several of them.Joseph Hunter Mark NobleA Genealogical History of the Present Royal FamiliPrint: Book


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