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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont multiplies en France bien plus encore que les violo...Edward Morgan Forster Paul-Louis Courier'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de ...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...Frederick J. Edminson Robert Browning'Phedippides'Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et la Belle Maguelone -- Also 1st Chapter of Winkelmann...Claire Clairmont anon'Pierre de Provence et la belle Maguelone, Fille d...Print: Book
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...R.B. Graham R.B. Graham'Pious Atrocity, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945‘Your parcels have arrived … You have my deepest assurances that the pleasure caused by your kindness has been considerable…. The reason I dared to ask for all these ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Ian Hay'Pip': A Romance of YouthPrint: Book
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749: 'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by what I have read of it, I think Mr Garrick is very much...J[?ane] Collier 'play'Unknown
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 Thomas Chatterton'Poems of Chatterton'Print: Book
1700-1799'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [close italics] they may be called, for he never writes...Frances Burney Jerningham'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours I read all the books and especially those consisting...Robert White [unknown]'poetry and border ballads'Print: Book
1800-1849'With George W. Norman he [George Grote] kept up a steady and intimate intercourse [...] They read books in common, chiefly on historical and political subjects, and they...George Grote and George W. Norman 'Political Economy'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] Cameron with me [...] Between 7 and 8 I locked up [fa...George Grote and Charles CameronDavid Ricardo'Political Economy'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] Cameron with me [...] Between 7 and 8 I locked up [fa...George Grote David Ricardo'Political Economy'Print: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] October -- 24th. [...] Read a little of Bolingbroke's Political Works.' Claire Clairmont Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke'Political Works'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Cowper'Poplar Field'Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' (1628), followed b...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Roch...Print: Book
1700-1799'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fresnoy's Art of Painting. "Plac'd on the isthmus of ...Hester Lynch Thrale John Dryden'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'Print: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much admiration though with plenty of sympathy: published s...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Giono'Prelude de Pan'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'"Do you know Dr. Burney, Ma'am?" said Mr Thrale. "No Sir, but I know his Book. I think it's vastly pretty;"'Victoria Kynaston Charles Burney'Present State of Music in France and Italy' or 'G...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving troubl...Catherine Talbot 'Princess Mesirida'Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of cavalry & infantry. On one side is "Public virtue se...Joseph Hunter [n/a]'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative ...Print: Handbill


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