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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Our Village'Sarah Good Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845: 'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first time, real Italy at Sorrento, she says. Oh that book ...Robert Browning Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 184...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Anna Seward Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.'Elizabeth Montagu Mary Wortley MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irritation with Lady Mary's avowed contempt for Pope' [s...Anna Seward Mary Wortley Montagu[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Afterwards, when upstairs, Mrs Montagu's "Letters" which I think very highly of.'William Windham Mary Wortley MontaguLetters of the Right Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montag...Print: Book
1800-1849'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are deemed so naughty by all the world, that one must k...Mr Sharpe Mary Wortley MontaguLetters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley MontaguPrint: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter Mary Wortley, Lady MontaguLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Nov. 4th. Rise at nine. Finish a novel called Manfrone or the one handed monk by Mrs. Radcliffe.' Claire Clairmont Mary-Anne RadcliffeManfrone; or, the One-handed MonkPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary E. Robson Mary. E Robson[a description of Goethe's novel The Sorrows of Yo...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'Mary Shelley Mateo AlemanGuzman de AlfarachePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'Mary Shelley Mateo AlemanGuzman de AlfarachePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whet...Lady Caroline Lamb Mathew (Monk) LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Matilda Serao, in a copy apparently sent to him by Bou...Henry James Matilda Serao[unidentified novel]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and Bandello - by starts.'George Gordon Lord Byron Matteo BandellounknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clark, a Gloucester railway worker's daughter, "and I pa...Ethel Clark Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldReview of Objections to Literature and DogmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night."Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLiterature and Dogma (possibly)Manuscript: proofs of article
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I shou...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLetters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888Print: Book


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