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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I s...Joseph Mayett John BunyanTwo covenantsPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Ana...T. H. White C. G. JungTwo Essays on Analytical PsychologyPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanTwo Essays on MiraclesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Charles WellsTwo essays: one upon single vision with two eyesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Two Foscari'Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord ByronTwo Foscari, TheUnknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Peter BayneTwo Great EnglishwomenPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had mPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe...Henry James Elizabeth Drew StoddardTwo MenPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson George ColmanTwo Odes: To Obscurity and To OblivionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at home, I thought as well of it ["The Admiral's Daugh...Harriet Martineau Mrs MarshTwo Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daugh...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I think Anne's 'Tales' particularly interesting ... I prefer the first, there is greater purity and far greater truth. 'The Admiral's Daughter' is deficient in both thes...Jessie Sismondi Anne Marsh CaldwellTwo Old Men's Tales: The deformed and The Admiral'...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more ...Elizabeth Barrett anon Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral...Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 25 July 1926: 'Mrs Hardy said to me, do you know Aldous Huxley? [...] They had been reading his book, which she thought "very clever". But Hardy could not remember...Thomas and Florence HardyAldous HuxleyTwo or Three GracesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I tried to finish "The Three Saplings" [sic] by Mazo de la Roche but couldn't'.Hilary Spalding Mazo de la RocheTwo Saplings, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Puseytwo sermonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the addition of his zeal in the cause of the Bible Society.'Jane Austen Edward CooperTwo Sermons Preached at WolverhamptonPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you. I have read them with a searc...Henry James Edward Holton Jamestwo storiesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 186...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth C. AkersTwo SummersPrint: Serial / periodical


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