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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French,also...Emma Darwin John Campbell Shairp?Aspects of PoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945Er kehrt zum Vater wenn er die Erbs?nde verneint [...] Der Raum enth?lt in Nebeneinader was nur in zeitlicher Nacheinander erlebt werden kann [...] Gravitation, Symbo...James Joyce Otto Weinginer?ber die letzten DingePrint: Book
1800-1849'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de Custine?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fre...Print: Book
1900-1945'Did I thank you for George's history? I'm reading it now — it's a wonderful book. How wise and sane he is and how brilliantly he presents the picture. The first ch...Gertrude Bell George [?]Trevelyan?British History in the Nineteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I am having a holiday -- reading old Birrell'.Virginia Woolf Augustine Biirrell?Collected Essays, 1880-1920Print: Book
1900-1945'This valley led us up onto a little Col from whence we looked down into the beautiful Wady Sir [Wadi es Sir] with Arak [Iraq]el Emir lying in the bottom of it and height...Gertrude Bell Flavius Josephus?Complete WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'Your anecdote of Tom [?Thomas Clarkson] that he sate up all night reading William's poem gave me as much plea...Tom ?Clarkson William Wordsworth?Excursion, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish saints, on which I have wasted many a half hour latel...Catherine Talbot Pedro de Ribadeneira?Flos SanctorumPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Charles Hugo?German Grammar SimplifiedPrint: Book
1900-1945'We saw dimly some of the lovely African coast. Lots of porpoises lying on the surface of the water, lazily turning up a fin. Hugo and I sat all morning in the sun readin...Gertrude Bell George Grote?History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'I found the proof of ?John Knox? waiting me here, and have despatched it.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson?John Knox and his Relations with Women??Print: Proof copy.
1900-1945'Read John Woolman.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook ?William Teignmouth ?Shore?John Woolman: His Life and Our Times: Being a Stu...Print: BookUnknown
1850-1899'Left at 12.30 and reached Munich at 9, but the journey didn't seem at all long. Read Morelli and "La Cousine Bette". Stopped at the Hotel Belle Vue, supper and so to bed...Gertrude Bell Giovanni Morelli (pseud. Ivan Lermolieff)?Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Ma...Print: Book
1900-1945'Without personal influence on my life he [Harry de la Rose Farnall] he nevertheless put into my hands the small poorly printed volume that led me into communion, how rem...Ronald Storrs Dante Alighieri?La Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the morning to Santa Maria where we looked at the Spanish Chapel with Ruskin.[...] In the afternoon poked about in the back streets behind the Duomo which are all fu...Gertrude Bell Dante Alighieri?La Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished the "Birth Stories" and began "La Mort des D....." which seems excellent.' Gertrude Bell Dmitry Sergyeevich Merezhkovsky?La Mort des Dieux: Le roman de Julien l'Apostat Print: Book
1900-1945'Two letters from home ... Explored cellars and caves with Okell ... Search shop above and find volumes of "Lisez[?] moi."'Martin Wentworth Littlewood ?Le "Lisez Moi" Historique HistoriaPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A most striking book, & gives abundant food for thought & admiration, one of those which to read is an epoch for the mind… I think the whole book calculated to be of gre...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau?Life in the SickroomPrint: Book
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and autobiographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old...John Buchan James Boswell?Life of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'But this is specially to thank you for the two books — the "Adding Machine" and "Men and Masses". Modern literature is very queer isn't it, but it's also extremely...Gertrude Bell Ernst Toller?Man and MassesPrint: Book


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