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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The programme devoted to Carlyle & his works was then proceeded with but owing to the length of the discussion was not completed. Mr Stansfield read a paper on Carlyle &...Walter Rowntree Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the...Margaret Carlyle Thomas CarlyleState of German LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading Carlyle, like all the rest of the world. He has been writing a sort of pamphlet on the state of England called ''Chartism.'' It is full of compassion...Emma Darwin Thomas CarlyleChartismPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'It has most glaring faults as a historical style, but in spite of its obscurity, barbaric whirl of words, & the still graver charge of a certain indifferentism or fatali...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas CarlyleThe French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 5 April 1849:

'The Cornhill books are still our welcome and congenial resource while Anne [sister, in terminal decline] i...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas CarlyleMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 April 1849:

'I like Carlyle better and better. His style I do not like, nor do I always concur in his opinions, nor qu...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Aunt Fanny [Allen] is in a rapture with ''Sartor'' and feels quite convinced that Teufelsdröckh is meant for Coleridge [...] For my part it is such very hard reading t...Emma Wedgwood Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Mignon Castle Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'This last week many little amenities have softened our lot; after a fornight's detention we had the good fortune to have our grand-motherly sergeant as chief of the guar...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am driven by stress of bad novels to Carlyle again.'Emma Darwin Thomas CarlyleUnknown, possibly Letters and Memorials of Jane We...Print: Book
1900-1945'By the time I was seventeen, my passion for reading had become so intense that a few hours [study in the public library] in the evenings seemed totally insufficient ... ...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one end of the shop stood the foreman's little glass office, from which he could observe all that was going on through the windows in front of him. To obstruct his vi...Vero Walter Garratt Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Our drive with Carlyle was interesting ... he talked about a number of things, especially about his 'French Revolution', which I happened to be reading.'William Darwin Thomas CarlyleThe French Revolution
1900-1945‘Here I am, sitting on my bed, half-reading Carlyle, little soaking through to my dull mind, when I become aware that a boxing match is being arranged … I am not alto...Ivor Bertie Gurney Thomas CarlyleHeroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'At the time I received thy letter, I was reading Carlyle's 'Life of Cromwell'. I was unable to procure the second volume immediately, and while waiting for it, I have ...Eliza Ellis Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson Thomas CarlyleThe French Revolution: A HistoryPrint: Book
1500-1599'tell supper time I hard Mr Rhodes read of Cartwright'Richard Rhodes Thomas Cartwright[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'Richard Rhodes Thomas CartwrightA Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegift...Print: Book
1600-1699'after, tell night, I kept Companie with Mr Hoby who reed a whill of Cartwrights book to me'Thomas Hoby Thomas CartwrightA Replye to an Answere made of M. Doctor Whitegift...Print: Book
1800-1849'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. Newton's modest and firm faith in christianity.'Benjamin Newton Thomas ChalmersA series of discourses on the Christian recelationUnknown


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