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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William Wordsworth'Sonnet on Napoleon'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844: 'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me so much offence by the prose note attached to it beg...Elizabeth Barrett William Wordsworth'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere R...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'On Taste' 'Taste is from Heaven /...'E.E.R. John Clare'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel,Print: Book
1800-1849'Sorrows for a Friend' 'O ye brown old oaks that spread the silent wood...' 'Clare'E.E.R. John Clare'Sorrows for a Friend' from The Village Minstrel,Print: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] ...Walter Scott Bell'specimen of a historical novel'Unknown
1800-1849John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaini...John Clare 'Spelling Book' (grammar)Print: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 8 December 1825: 'Knox, a young poet of considerable talent, died here a week or two since [...] succeeding to good farms under the Duke of Buccleuch [he]...Walter Scott William Knox'Spiritual hymns'Unknown
1700-1799'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are very entertaining. You will find in them a great co...Sydney Smith Samuel Parr'Spital Sermon'Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf unknown'sporting memoirs'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs Edminson, Mr Cass & Mr Goadby...John Ridges Alfred, Lord Tennyson'St Agnes' Eve'Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has always had an astonishing Power of doing such Things. [...Hester Lynch Thrale Charles Burney'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri...Thomas Carlyle William Hazlitt'Standard Novels'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist Horne'Stanzas to a Ruined Windmill'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him during a walk near to Land's End in the late summer ...Alfred Tennyson Cowper'stanzas to Mary Unwin'Unknown
1800-1849'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'story of the Basket Woman'Print: Book
1800-1849Scrope Davies to John Murray, 17 May 1837: 'Barring the "Bubbles" (which I read because you recommended it to Nimrod [i.e. C. Apperly]) and Washington Irving's works, ...Scrope Davies Washington Irving'Stout Gentleman'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Look at the 19th Century for October. It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an India Girl” – I called it Social India but found that...Cornelia Sorabji'Stray Thoughts of an Indian GirlManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Eden. Miss Bowman-Smith played Debussy's "Garden Under ...Celia Burrow Walter de la Mare'Sunken Garden'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delight in an exquisite paper by the Opium-eater, which m...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas De Quincey'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Conf...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superst...Maria Graham George Gordon Lord Byron'Swiss Journal [letter]'Manuscript: Unknown


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