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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho...Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Your book—my book [Davies, "Child Lovers"] has just arrived, and it is finished. Only to increasing certainty that Davies was once an exquisite poet—of which time he...Ivor Bertie Gurney Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945‘Thanks very much indeed for the letter and Lit. Sups, and especially for "Satires of Circumstance". I had not got it or ordered it but had often been thinking of doi...Charles Hamilton Sorley Times Literary SupplementPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one...Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'Margaret Oliphant Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has a...Wordsworth Family Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "The Times" of 19 May, and on 21 May another long piec...Arnold Bennett Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'unable to read anything except "Times".'George Eliot [pseud] unknownTimes, ThePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not that sentence unbecoming in a minister's wife?' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of counting - Our Times of today has taken away my br...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Times will be so kind as to leave it alone; for I think...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pe...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, long before I had the slightest suspicion it was yours...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duc...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: "Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and walk ... yet here I am still, taking it all out in read...Henry James timetablesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'One thing, however, yet remains to us & dares to baffle all the wickedness of the Ministry, the tyranny of the Crown, & the various horrours of these ruinous times, ?Man...Frances Burney Rev. George ButtTimoleonManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 19 May 1800: 'Read Timon of Athens.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareTimon of AthensPrint: Book


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