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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'...I should have thought that I acknowledged the “[Literary] Remains”, but I suppose I only intended to do it. I am, on the whole, greatly pleased with them. There is ...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35.
Sylvanus Reynolds in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved.

5. It was with a...		Samuel V. Bracher Samuel V. BracherBees and the PoetsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Sapper (pseud.) Men, Women, and GunsPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I am quite delighted with the sweet little one’s [Sara Coleridge’s] sweet little book. It is such an image of the tiny self - not perhaps as married life, and alas, si...Hartley Coleridge Sara ColeridgePretty Lessons in Verse for Good ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'George Eliot (pseud) Sara HennellChristianity and InfidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Gascoyne's [sic] book on Burmah, Kipling and Murray and wrote letters. Very steamy day. Read Mrs Cotes' "Delightful Americans" after dinner and thought it only ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)Those Delightful AmericansPrint: Book
1900-1945'And woke at 7 [she had been sleeping on deck] — no nonsense about swabbing down the decks here! Very hot and steaming and the smell downstairs appalling. Read the ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Voyage of ConsolationPrint: Book
1900-1945'In parenthesis, I hope you'll like Mrs Sara Jeannette [Duncan]. I thought her charming and she was so kind to us [in Calcutta]. She longs to know you. Read "A Voyage of ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Social departure: How Orthodocia and I went roun...Print: Book
1900-1945'Just a word to tell you I have finished your Mother's book ["A Confederate Girl's Diary"]. Admirable.' Hence follow 14 lines of praise. Joseph Conrad Sara Morgan Dawson A Confederate Girl's DiaryManuscript: Proofs (see letter and fn.3 p.243 of source text)
1850-1899'[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in it...Harriet Martineau Sara Sophia HennellThoughts in Aid of FaithPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'Either a Stickney or a Strictland wrote the "Poetry of Life", prose (very) essays, which I couldn't ge...Elizabeth Barrett Sarah Ellis (nee Stickney)The Poetry of LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Catherine Talbot Sarah Fieldingvarious worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christian...Sarah Scott Sarah FieldingDavid SimplePrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Sarah Fieldingmany worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in ...Samuel Richardson Sarah FieldingFamiliar Letters Between the Principle Characters ...Print: Book
1700-1799'[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinary God knows, but I dare say they are hers; though th...Hester Lynch Thrale Sarah Fielding'To Miss Salusbury'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748: 'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fielding's proof, which relates to Mrs. Teachum's method o...J[?ane] Collier Sarah FieldingThe GovernessPrint: Unknown, In proof
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, from Cuddesdon, 21 July 1753, in account of a day excursion in the local countryside (around Oxford): 'Yesterday we set off soon ...Catherine Talbot and familySarah FieldingLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754: 'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my way till very lately, and I read it with low spirits,...Elizabeth Carter Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much out of charity with one sign-post painting in it, to n...Catherine Talbot Sarah FieldingThe CryPrint: Book


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