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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nathan HaleThe American System OR The effects of high dutiesPrint: Book
1850-1899“What further stimulated Ruddy’s interest in the British soldier was a book he reviewed for his paper: Nathaniel Bancroft’s “From Recruit to Staff Sergeant” the autobiog...Rudyard Kipling Nathaniel BancroftFrom Recruit to Staff SergeantPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mark well my shack and seriously attend/...' [6 lines]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxNathaniel Cotton (The Elder)Lines under a Sun-Dial in the Churchyard at ThornbUnknown
1900-1945'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk!" and the "Sunday Express" philosopher, Nathaniel G...Vera Brittain Nathaniel Gubbinscomment in the "Sunday Express"Print: Newspaper
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo...Alice Thompson Nathaniel HawthornenovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Nathaniel Hawthorne[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou...Lucy Maud Montgomery Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne."Henry James Nathaniel HawthorneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "The Scarlet Letter".'George Eliot and G.H. LewesNathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, girning and angling matched the boy's pleasure in Emer...Christopher Grieve Nathaniel HawthorneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as every one in England had, the "Cleopatra chapter", and...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I dare say you don't care for the opinion of we three "weaker vessels" [i.e....Florence De Quincey Nathaniel Hawthorne"Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneTwice-Told TalesUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneBlithedale RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a part of his "House of the Seven Gables" and I don't...Thomas De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel (almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit...Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney Nathaniel HookeRoman HistoryPrint: Book


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