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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'From Miss [Lucy] Harrison [...] [Charlotte Mew] had heard time and again a reading of Carlyle's "Everlasting No" from "Sartor Resartus".'Lucy Harrison Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849'we read one of Carlyle's articles, at the T. Sedgwicks'.'Harriet Matineau and Mary AppletonThomas Carlyle[an article]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'"Chartism" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. There is a fine sympathy with the many at the bottom; bu...Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleChartismPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Past and Present", very bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found it weary and irritating reading, except abbot Samson ...Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'.Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederi...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burns. Was mightily cheered and lifted up by it.'Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleArticle on BurnsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely came, but going on with surprising persistence. A se...Edwin Muir Thomas CarlyleFrench RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleLife of PascalManuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
1850-1899'Later I had determined to spend a Whit-Monday at the Alexandra Palace, and on my way thither bought an eighteen-penny copy of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus". Arriving at th...Thomas Okey Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero WorshipPrint: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an ess...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, C...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Carlyle[uknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I think you. It h...Jane Bailie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCriticism on Faust (working title)Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-WorshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, received. I verily believe there is not a word of it, tha...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 13 February 1822Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843: 'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- There is nothing new in it -- even of Carlyleism .......Elizabeth Barrett Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I would give Shandy and my pearl necklace to be able t...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleCruthers and JohnsonPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I get perplexed sometimes. 'Do the duty that lies neares...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toge...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter


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