√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. Francis E. Pollard Richard Brinsley Sheridan [Speech on the devastation of Oudh] Print : Book1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. Mary E. Robson Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal Print : Book1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. Charles E. Stansfield Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal Print : Book1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. Reginald H. Robson Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal Print : Book1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. George Burrow Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal Print : Book1900-1945 'Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd., 30. i. 32. Unidentified members of the XII Book Club Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) The Filipino Martyrs Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'. George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix Trench An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With... Print : Book1900-1945 [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "David Copperfield", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "Lorna... questionaire respondent Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1900-1945 'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.' Thomas Kitching Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 '... doubly read Cristowell by Blackmore.' Robert Louis Stevenson Richard Doddridge Blackmore Cristowell Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1900-1945 'Books read from Feby 16th /18 Edward Henry Jones Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838:
'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no time to read them, except at a rail road speed, & th... Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin Townsend Visions of the Western Railways Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838:
'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]... Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin Townsend Visions of the Western Railways Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of New Zealand!! [...] as little as you do, &
have vent... Elizabeth Barrett Richard Edwin Austin Townsend poem on the departure and farewell sermon of Georg... Unknown 1900-1945 'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45 Thomas Hopkins Richard Evelyn Byrd [memoir of an Antarctic expedition] Print : Book1900-1945 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - Freud, Remy de Gourmont, de Sade and Krafft-Ebing. A... Lawrence Durrell Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing [probably] Psychopathia Sexualis Print : Book1700-1799 'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the World - Adrastus, Sicinius & Strabo are admirable in th... Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Fulke Greville Maxims, Characters, and Reflections Print : Book
