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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". I...Joseph Conrad Herman MelvilleMoby Dick or The WhalePrint: Book
1800-1849Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...William Richard Grahame n/a[Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almost nothing about his technique, which interests me c...Arnold Bennett André GideDostoevskyPrint: Book
1800-1849[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe...Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal PolitiquePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.Edward Austen Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Great DroughtPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849['Miss Fox' writes, on Tennyson's 1848 tour of Cornwall]: 'At one place [...] where he arrived in the evening, he cried, "Where is the sea? Show me the sea." So after ...Cornish 'grocers and shopkeepers' and working peopleAlfred Tennyson Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Finished Burton [...]William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1700-1799[27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.' ... [28th December]'We finished the lecture of "Don...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Friedrich SchillerDon Carlos in GermanPrint: Unknown
1700-1799[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it I wished to draw. [4 July 1797] I drew out of the "...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]Print: Book
1800-1849[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get.Anne Lister 'Paris guide'Print: Book
1700-1799[?Sarah] Fielding to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1754: 'Here are a set of young women endued with the most exemplary patience I ever met with; for Miss L---- and Miss B-...'Miss L----' and 'Miss B----'Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf John FordThe Lover's MelancholyPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to go on reading things miles away -- beautiful hard wo...Virginia Woolf Mrs EasdaleMiddle Age: 1885-1932Print: Book
1700-1799[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission to peruse my Letter, to which he agreeing, I had no...Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849[a long anecdote about how Hogg found his correspondent Janet Stuart's book in an Edinburgh bookshop and had to pay 7/6 for a 'pamphlet' which the bookseller argued was '...James Hogg Janet Stuart'Ode to Dr Thomas Percy'Print: Pamphlet
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent n/aBiblePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book


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