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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Am reading a book called: Truth on the Tragedy of France, by Elie J. Bois. He is a Frenchman and truly ashamed of all that happened.'Vere Hodgson Élie J. BoisTruth on the Tragedy of FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTruth's Welcome HomePrint: proof
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich SpeeTrutz Nachtigal ein geistlich poetisches LustwaldlPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you, my dearest for all the books you have presented me with, in particular for Fredro, qui m'a donné un plaisir extrème à lire et à regarder les images.'Joseph Conrad Alexandr FredroTrzy po TrzyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Arthur John Jex-BlakeTuberculosis: A General Account of the Disease, It...Print: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Alexandre DumasTulipe NoirePrint: Book
1900-1945 I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained another one. . . . Of course the play is not ‘nice’ readin...Arnold Bennett Hubert GriffithTunnel TrenchPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the Bronte Museum, there is a manuscript French phrase book, written and used by the Rev. Patrick Bronte during this [February 1842] visit to Brussels. It is a little...Patrick Bronte Turenne's New French Manual for 1840Print: Book
1900-1945'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTurgenev: A StudyPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:] 'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read the death of Adam. It is extremely fine, but so p...Catherine Talbot and familyLady Mary Wortley MontaguTurkish Embassy LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'They have what they call the [italics] sublime [italics], that is, a style proper for poetry, and which is the exact Scripture style. I believe you would be pleased to s...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Ibrahim PashaTurkish VersesManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have ...Jane Baillie Welsh Gozzi CarloTurnadot, Princess of ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you have not yet met with it, only read, as a sample, t...Elizabeth Smith Marcus Tullius CiceroTuscular DisputationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.'Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1850-1899'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a thousand pages about Hamlet...Miranda and Juliet: T...Katherine Mansfield William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book


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