√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage o... Frank Argent [unknown] [political history] Print : Book1850-1899 'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, editor of a Radical journal, calling on the people t... Robert Louis Stevenson By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon [political manifesto] Print : Poster, election posters.1800-1849 ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc... Samuel Bamford William Hone [political pamphlets] Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and particularly his political papers' Prince George Joseph Addison [Political works] Print : Book1900-1945 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goadby in which his many activities were passed in revi... Blanche Ridges William Morris [political works] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read a little in Arist. "Polit" before I went to bed.' William Windham Aristotle [Politics?] or Ethics and Politics Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente' George Eliot [pseud] Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca) [possibly a story from Le Cene] Print : Book1800-1849 'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bodies of Charles the First and Henry the Eighth: you m... Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron [possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daugh... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Write and finish Walther - In the evening I go out in the boat with Shelley - and he afterwards goes up to Diodati - begin one of Madame de Genlis novels - Shelley finis... Mary Godwin Madame de Genlis [possibly one of] Nouveaux contes moraux et nouvel... Print : Book1800-1849 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high art again, and not help to sink us in the subjectiv... Harriet Martineau Elizabeth Gaskell [possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I send you two pieces which were sent me for the proposed Poetic Mirror long ago and which are not in print to my knowledge. Southey's is one of his very best' James Hogg Robert Southey [possibly] 'A true Ballad of St Antidius, the Pope... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807:
'I walked an hour and read 50 pages of Bossuet ths morning before breakfast, wh... Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet [possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle' Print : Book1800-1849 'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot' Mary Shelley [unknown] [possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the Kin... Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W... Harriet Martineau Frances Edgeworth ? [possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Sel... Print : Book1850-1899 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John W. Kaye [possibly] Administration of the East India Compan... Print : Book1800-1849 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's... Charlotte Bury Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relati... Print : Book1800-1849 'read Bocaccio' Mary Shelley Giovanni Boccaccio [possibly] Decameron Print : Book1800-1849 'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is absolutely simply the utterance of the man'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Henry Newman [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations Print : Book1800-1849 'in the evening read Cicero de Senectute & the Paradoxa - Night comes. Jane walks in her sleep & groans horribly. listen for two hours - at length bring her to Mary. Begi... Percy Bysshe Shelley Julius (Or Lucus Annaeus) Florus [possibly] Epitome bellorum omnium annorum Print : Book1850-1899 'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julia Kavanagh [possibly] French Women of Letters Print : Book
