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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as I could find about Murger and his world, and the pe...Ralph Glasser Luigi Illica[libretto of 'La Boheme]Print: Book
1900-1945'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insis...Janice Biala [unknown][life and letters of Gauguin]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of the poem you had the goodness to send me; but you in ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William Hayley[Life and letters of William Cowper]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st vol of Adele - & write - after dinner write to Fanny and go up to Diodati where I read the life Mad. Deffand'Mary Godwin Madame du Deffand[life included in] Correspondence in?dite de Mme d...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I finish Curtius. S. reads & finishes Plutarchs life of Alexander. After tea S. reads the XXth chapter of Gibbon to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley Plutarch[Life of Alexander]Print: Book
1700-1799'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as...Samuel Richardson David Mallett[Life of Bacon]Print: Book
1700-1799[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderman [italics] Barber [end italics], wherein there is ...Edmond Curll Matthew Pilkington[Life of Barber]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton[Life of Barnum]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.George Eliot [pseud.] Manni[Life of Burchiello]Print: Book
1850-1899'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown[Life of Francois de Sales]Print: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

[...]

7....		Mary E. Robson [Life of Frederick Andrews]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Goethe's life. With what enthusiasm he made his journey into Italy. It is pleasant to read or hear of any persons who allow themselves to go beyond the comm...Charlotte Bury [life of Goethe]Print: Book
1900-1945'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of that girl.' [unknown][life of Joan of Arc]Print: Book
1850-1899'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'John Ruskin [unknown][life of Lord Byron]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine ...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Life of or by William Cullen]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Patrick Murdoch[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell anon.[Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The S...Print: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were considered. Edward Little read a paper on his Life. ...Alfred Rawlings [Life of Tolstoy]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that I ever met with of any sect, the speech of John Will...Benjamin Newton Galt[Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin We...Print: Book


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