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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Letter 444. March, 31st, 1832: "I think it may be better to write directly to yourself, on the subject you enquire about. In Theocritus—καλα ε...Elizabeth Barrett Browning HesiodTheogonyPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "I have looked over the first Pythian again. The finest passage in it, is longer than Synesius’s ninth hymn"Elizabeth Barrett Browning PindarFirst Pythian OdePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 447. April, 19th, 1832: "These are the lines from Anacreon, Makarizomen se tettix, Hote dendreoon ep’ akroon Oligeen droson pepookoos, Basileus hopoos, aeide...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anacreon Print: Book
1850-1899Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next ed...Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John RuskinThe Political Economy of ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle o...John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de GenlisunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was...John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldUnknown
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips." John Ruskin Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King...John Ruskin William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.' John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis Print: Book
1850-1899Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b...Anna Blunden John RuskinThe Elements of DrawingPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ...John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown
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1850-1899		Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them...John Ruskin Edmund SpencerThe Faerie QueenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them...Anna Blunden Edmund SpencerThe Faerie QueenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...Anna Blunden Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing...Anna Blunden John RuskinNotes on the Construction of SheepfoldsPrint: Pamphlet
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1850-1899		Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet[on composition]Print: Book
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1850-1899		Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m...John Ruskin The BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences....Lucy Aikin Alexander von HumboldtPersonal Narrative of TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, H...Anna Letitia Barbauld William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book


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