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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almost as much as he likes yours. I keep a vol. of his a...Harriet Martineau R.M. Milnes Print: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Lawrence L. LynchShadowed by Three: A Detective StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Dashing Kate, the Female DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers.Vernon Lee Karl GroosDie Befreiungen der SeelePrint: Book
1900-1945Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of the time. We discussed Bridges and Masefield... For ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Ford Madox FordEnglish ReviewPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		P.C., transport convict, writing to Rev Joseph from Dartmoor prison, Devon: 'When I read over the Book of Joshua, I often think of the lectures we received from your lips...P.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945P.S. I recommend to you 'Zarathustra'. It is not a book for the weak or the sentimental but a great book. I have been fortifying myself with it in moments of weakne...Freya Stark Friedrich NietzscheAlso sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Kei...Print: Book
1900-1945Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think that the material presentation leaves something to be ...Arnold Bennett AdelphiPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'. Arnold Bennett Ethel SmythStreaks of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say it is better than 'Impressions'. Arnold Bennett Ethel SmythImpressions that RemainedPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wanderings in South America, accompanied by comment 'His s...Edward Morgan Forster Charles WatertonWanderings in South AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Henri-Frederic AmielFragments d'un Journal IntimePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discovered by later explorers, from Samuel Henley's Appendix...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel HenleyAppendix no. 2Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin's introduction to his notes on Turner drawings owne...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinIntroduction to Notes on Turner drawingsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame de Sevigne, the first of which, Forster notes under...Edward Morgan Forster Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William Wordsworth'Sonnet on Napoleon'Print: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' to The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe...Edward Morgan Forster Charles F. Richardson'Critical Introduction'Print: Book


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