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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendhal on Rome [...] Cant formulate a phrase for K.M. All...Virginia Woolf Stendhal 'on Rome'Print: Book
1800-1849'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...'E.E.R. John Clare'On Taste' from The Village Minstrel, Volume II.Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819): 'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set ...George Grote David Ricardo'on the depreciation of our paper currency'Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this day. Between 4 and 5 I set to and read his Pamphle...George Grote David Ricardo'on the depreciation of our paper currency'Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841: 'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athenaeum! -- Lady Burlington's I mean!' ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Pai...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd ba...Sir William Hamilton Sir William Hamilton'On the size of the brain and the proportion of it...Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Elizabeth I's 'On the words hoc est corpus meum', titled 'Queen Elizas answer to Bishop Gardner'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Queen Elizabeth I (attrib.)'On the words hoc est corpus meum'Print: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson Matthew Arnold'on Tolstoi'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger". H.M. Wallis gave us an appreciation of 'Q's' work...Reginald Robson Arthur Quiller-Couch'Once aboard the lugger'Print: Book
1850-1899'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then entered up [?] Mrs Stansfield read a paper on some char...Alfred Rawlings Robert Browning'One Word More'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842: 'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]Oriana[end italics] [in Tennyson's poem of that nam...Elizabeth Barrett Alfred Tennyson'Oriana'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 10 March 1841: 'I have seen Orpheus, & write just to thank you for the pleasure of the vision [...] You have gathered pow...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'Orpheus'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get.Anne Lister 'Paris guide'Print: Book
1800-1849'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy of your two last poems kindly sent to me by Murray, t...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina'Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touched before and there is something in "The Siege of Co...James Hogg George Gordon, Lord Byron'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth'Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 November 1845: 'Since I wrote what is above, I have been reading [...] that sonnet -- "Past and Future" -- which affects me mo...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Barrett'Past and Future'Print: Book
1700-1799'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] The next subject of praise [following Fitzgerald's com...George Robert Fitzgerald Mary Robinson'pastoral [poem]'Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs
1900-1945'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were unquestioning patriots ready to respond to heroics. ...Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh and schoolmatesRupert Brooke'Peace'Print: Book
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with your contribution to it, which I esteem most admirab...Lord George Bentinck John Wilson Croker'Peel Policy'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Jean Baptiste Massillon'Petite Careme'Print: Book


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