√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London Examiner? I never heard of Chas Buller before; but ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle [article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief introduction & read an article from Nov 1914 Scribners. ... Ernest E. Unwin [article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Many thanks for your new book: I see that there are
many things that I have read before, and shall be
glad to read again in book form. Last evening I read
your poi... William Henry Hudson John Galsworthy [article in 'The Nation'] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'There is what I consider a pretty good 5 Towns story [‘From One Generation to Another’] in the October London Magazine. But they have given it a rotten air by splitting... Arnold Bennett unknown unknown [article in London Magazine ] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and re... Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown [article in Edinburgh Courant] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ... Sydney Smith unknown [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoir... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham ... Sydney Smith unknown [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to B... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'When I realised that war made people around me feel hatred for their kinsmen (by which I mean mankind). People say they wish for peace, but are quite prepared to put a m... Dick Sheppard [article in News Chronicle] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl... Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey [article in Quarterly Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" went out of his way to damn Kipling and me with the sa... Joseph Conrad Arthur Symons [article in Saturday Review] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '... we went into the Reading Rooms, and the "Daily Telegraph" Correspondent read us the article he had written on our trek across the mountains, which is to appear in th... Dorothy Minnie Newhall unknown unknown [article in the "Daily Telegraph" on Serbian missi... Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on March 12th by the American columnist, Dorothy Thompso... Vera Brittain Dorothy Thompson [article in the "Sunday Chronicle"] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I have been greatly interested by the second article in the 'Spectator', and by Wallace's long article in the 'Academy'. I see I have had no influence on him, and his Re... Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace [article in the 'Academy'] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly'] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style; but it is really quite shameful that a good stout a... Sydney Smith John Allen [article in the Annual Register, 1806] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christ... George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article in the Athenaeum] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'. George Eliot [pseud.] unknown [article in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his life] H.R. Smith gave an account of The Forest Lover... R.B. Graham Maurice Hewlett [article in The Nation] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Darwin [article on 'Diseased Volition'] Print : Unknown1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 April 1850:
'Thank you for the "Leader" which I read with pleasure — the notice of Newman's work ... Charlotte Brontë [article on 'Newman's work'] Print : Serial / periodical