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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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1850-1899		'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just received. It [italics] looks [end italics] most temptin...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettTriumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
1900-1945I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespeare's Complete Works' and started at the beginning w...Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cullen BryantThanatopsisPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th...George Howell William Cullen Bryant Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El...Ada Cambridge William Dean Howells Print: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."Henry James William Dean Howells"A Pedestrian Tour"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having a sale -- bless it! I haven't yet seen the last pa...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Chance Acquaintance (fifth part)Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I had great pleasure in reading it over ... [goes on t...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Chance AcquaintancePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ... If kindness could kill I should be safely out of th...Henry James William Dean Howellsreview of Henry James, A Passionate PilgrimPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half ago was to purchase 'Lemuel Barker' ... and though ...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Minister's ChargePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 'tribute' in the September Harper, but I have just loo...Henry James William Dean HowellsarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer del...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Lady of the AroostookPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered, which I immediately read with greater comfort and c...Henry James William Dean HowellsThe Undiscovered CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean HowellsRagged LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean HowellsTheir Silver Wedding JourneyPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver...Henry James William Dean Howells'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story)Print: Unknown
1900-1945Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short tales ["A Pair of Patient Lovers"]-- the arrival of wh...Henry James William Dean HowellsA Pair of Patient LoversPrint: Book
1850-1899'In another letter Arthur praises William Dean Howells's "A Modern Instance" as "a owerful novel - bare, blank, utterly unidealised realism, not by any means the ideal 'i...Arthur Symons William Dean HowellsA Modern InstancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s Harper?s.'Arnold Bennett William Dean Howells'Easy Chair' columnPrint: Serial / periodical


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