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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Tropic Rain'Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Vagabond'Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Ernest E. Unwin Robert Louis StevensonTravels with a DonkeyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert Louis StevensonMaster of Ballantrae, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Charles and Katherine EvansRobert Louis Stevenson[letters]Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...members of XII Book ClubRobert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...members of XII Book ClubRobert Louis StevensonIsland Nights' EntertainmentsPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Robert Louis StevensonSt IvesPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Robert Louis StevensonThe Black Arrow Print: Book
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristically interesting & amusing. Mrs C. Elliott read in...Katherine Evans Robert Louis Stevenson[letters]Print: Unknown
1850-1899I had a snug evening with Mildred reading part of the broken last novel of L. Stevenson, in which he gives most elaborate descriptions of characters you don't care for. H...Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonThe Weir of Hermiston Print: Book
1850-1899'We read aloud one of the ''New Arabian Nights'' you mention, which is very amusing ... I particularly admire the ending of the bandbox story...'Emma Darwin Robert Louis StevensonNew Arabian NightsPrint: 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 Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1850-1899'After lunch they all went to the Eiffel Tower and I stayed at home and read Stevenson and wrote letters.' Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's "Horace Chase".' Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonFamiliar Studies of Men and Books Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr [Horatio] Brown showed us all sorts of interesting Stevenson things yesterday — particularly a little paper book of poems, with all the Stevenson grace about th...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis Stevenson?Moral EmblemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'We were coasting down Corsica — I saw it out of my bathroom window — in perfect weather, mild and calm and sunny. We passed through the Straits of Bonifac[c]...Gertrude Bell Robert Louis StevensonThe Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to his famil...Print: Book
1900-1945'The ... grandiloquent "education programme" we were able to satisfy sufficiently. A number of the "boys" were barely literate and Miss Nettleton could deal with the thre...Irene Nettleton Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Not many miles away to the left lies Landrecies, which R. L. Stevenson refers to, in "An Inland Voyage," as, "a point in the great warfaring system of Europe which might...Ian Vivian Hay Robert Louis StevensonAn Inland VoyagePrint: Book
1900-1945'On many nights I would sit beside the kitchen fire, listening to my father reading or telling tales. There was no wireless then and no gramophones, and our fireside talk...Desmond Malone Robert Louis StevensonThrawn JanetPrint: Book


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