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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaOliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Vicar of Wakefield'Mary Shelley Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150'Thomas Kitching Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.'John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithVicar of Wakefield, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details." It was a London...Arnold Bennett Vice in the Potteries: Shocking DetailsPrint: newspaper placard
1850-1899?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may s...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonVictor Hugo's RomancesPrint: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1900-1945'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'.Arnold Bennett unknownVictoria History of the PotteriesPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Vi...

Rosamund Wallis Laurence HousmanVictoria ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Vi...

Celia Burrow Laurence HousmanVictoria ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Vi...

Francis E. Pollard Laurence HousmanVictoria ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Vi...

Ethel C. Stevens Laurence HousmanVictoria ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.

L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. A number of scenes from Vi...

Un-named members of the XI Book ClubLaurence HousmanVictoria ReginaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradVictoryPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 19 February 1826; 'Being troubled with thick-coming fancies and a slight palpitation of the heart I have been reading the Chronicle of the Good Knight Messir...Walter Scott G. ChastellainVie de Jacques de LalainePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am keeping the "Jeanne d'Arc" until you return to town, unless you want me to send it out west to you. Upon the whole I think it is disappointing. One asks oneself why...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceVie de Jeanne d'ArcPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Joseph Ernest RenanVie de JesusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amount of background reading.[...] However it was not u...Joseph Conrad Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle]Vie de NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'. Gerald Moore Romain RollandVie de TolstoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. re...Mary Shelley Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de CondorcetVie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivi...Print: Book


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