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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Even 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 toget...Jack Carlyle Thomas CarlyleProofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], and wondering whether all his rant has made a scra...Virginia Woolf Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle wrote better than Lytton [Strachey], then to see if ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Carlyle'reminiscences'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should always be 'getten'; &c. - In the midst of all my dee...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[letter approving 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or [italics] try [end italics] to put it aside,) and th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Letter
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 / periodical
1850-1899'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 / periodical
1900-1945'(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this enchanting book which for a time has entirely seduced...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinking myself safe and then, not even knowing I'm there, ...Antonia White Thomas Carlyle[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic ...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 20th January 1825Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My own, best, dearest Love I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of coming. As it was they were obilged to put leeches...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 29th July 1825Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My dear Carlyle, I received your letter with the inclosed addressed to Mr Burns, which I had the pleasure of delivering to him about three weeks ago. I reached Edinburgh...James Johnston Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 4 August Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
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1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas Carlyle'Frederick'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleLatter DaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humourists, some of Hallam's History and of Carlyle's Cromw...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1850-1899'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in which so much as Burns’s name appears, I was really e...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleEssay on Burns Print: Book
1900-1945'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of nature, had come with the sixteen-year-old reading of Car...Vera Brittain Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1850-1899'You are right about that adorable book; F. and I are in a world, not ours; but pardon me, as far as sending on goes, we take another view; the first vol. a la bonne heur...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleReminiscencesPrint: Book


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