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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?His [Sir Alfred Lyall] little volume of poems too is very good in its way. When I came back from America last time, I made a reputation on board by reciting one of the p...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallVerses written in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- the sort of thing I required [for preparation for tr...Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallBritish Dominion in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Graham, The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan (1909).'Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallAsiatic Studies: Religious and SocialPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever...John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Sir Arthur Conan DoyleHound of the Baskervilles, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".'John Ruskin Sir Arthur HelpsConquerors of the New WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries ago, and it is hard to belive that he is even dead. ...Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') Sir Aurel SteinunknownPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'At the Coffee-house in Exchange=alley I bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders", written by Sir Balth. Gerbier; it is dedicated almost to all the men of any great c...Samuel Pepys Sir Balth. GerbierCounsel and advise to all builders; for the choice...Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf Sir Charles MallettAnthony Hope and His BooksPrint: Book
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Sir Charles William PasleyEssay on the Military Policy and Institutions of t...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.'Samuel Pepys Sir Edward CokeThe third part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book
1600-1699'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth inform me in many things; and for aught I see, it is ...Henry Moore Sir Edward CokeInstitutes of the laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and send them to my brother George who begins his circuit...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Sir Edward CokeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'Virginia Woolf Sir Edward MarshA Number of PeoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'My father spoke at this time [1891] warmly of the gallant spirit of Sir Edward Reed's lines on the Fleet in the St James' Gazette; and said he liked much of Wallace's Da...Alfred Tennyson Sir Edward Reed'lines on the Fleet'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two, or one, in a Review -- & thought them abominable...Robert Browning Sir Edward George Bulwer-LyttonEva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and ...Print: Serial / periodical
'"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who...Sir Edwin ArnoldThe Light of AsiaPrint: Unknown
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, by a strange, but able, old man (Sir E[gerton] B[ryd...George Gordon Lord Byron Sir Egerton BrydgesThe Ruminator: containing a series of moral, criti...Print: Book
1600-1699'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Francis WalsinghamArcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudenti...Print: Book


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