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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Blanco WhiteA letter to Charles Butler, EsqPrint: Book
1700-1799content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader had read the letter)Frances Hamilton [unknown]A Letter to Earl StanhopePrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made...anon Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of ...Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before, for the very curious pamphlet containing Swinburne's sweet little joke. I enjoyed both the verse and the prose (especially the prose)...Joseph Conrad Algernon SwinburneA Letter to Ralph Waldo EmersonPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I ...William Wordsworth Henry BroughamA Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of C...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute necessity for its being so. Wit and declamation would be...Sydney Smith Henry BroughamA Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHA...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read a very elegant piece of criticism, intitled "A Letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton", on his late Edition of Milton?s "Juvenile" Poems...'Thomas Green Samuel DarbyA letter to the Rev. Mr. T. Warton, on his late ed...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas SwinburneA Letter to the Right Honourable Robert PeelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.Sydney Smith unknownA Life in the ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'Frank Smythe James BoswellA Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 22. [...] Read Berrington's History of the Middle Ages.'Claire Clairmont Rev. Joseph BerringtonA Literary History of the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely reading) there occurs a simple sentence which came forcib...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesA Little Tour in FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. Having read A London Child I wrote to Molly [Hughes]...Molly V HughesA London Child of the SeventiesPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

...		Francis E. Pollard Lucy HarrisonA Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of ...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 5 May 1802, 'I read The Lover's Complaint to Wm. in bed, and left him composed.'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Lover's ComplaintPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jade]". Very fine. Extraordinary subtle feeling I'll wr...Joseph Conrad L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-ByngA Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classica...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827: 'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -- & now, having read them, I have it in my power t...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydA Malvern TaleUnknown
1850-1899'But my great excitement was reading your stories. Garnett's right. "A Man and some others" is immense. I can't spin a long yarn about it but I admire it without reserve....Joseph Conrad Stephen CraneA Man and Some OthersPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am profoundly impressed with the achievement of style.[...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettA Man from the North.Print: Book


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