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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry PrescottHistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'.William Henry Smith William Henry Smith[Paper on Ruskin]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrote James Murray, the son of a Scottish shoemaker. "By...James Murray William Henry Giles Kingston[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of MexicoPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of PeruPrint: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton William Hickling Prescott[Spanish history]Print: Book
1850-1899'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the key to all the actors please send it to me.'Oscar Wilde William Hurrell MallockThe New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook William II, Emperor of Germany Real Kaiser, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945‘You give no address so I forward the "Morals [of Marcus Ordeyne", W. J. Locke] to Alpenrose. You will like to read it in London. I feel rather limp this morning—coul...Wilfred Owen William John LockeThe Morals of Marcus OrdeynePrint: Book
1900-1945'Please don't worry about me for one single moment. I'm as safe as houses here & having a very jolly time ... Please thank Elsie very much for the photograph & for ...John Lawton William John LockeSeptimusPrint: Book
1800-1849'L.E.L.'s [Laetitia Elizabeth Landon's] 3d vol is very good indeed. It has Romance & Sentiment; which is that in which she excells - [underlined] Reality [end underlining...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I will return Cavendish in a few days - It is very clever - but the beginning is best - & it is immoral - why [wr]ite about certain things; it is bad enough that they ar...Mary Shelley William Johnson NealeCavendish; or, the Patrician at SeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordThe Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a ...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article (a fine article it was too; […]'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordReview of 'The Unseen Universe or Physical Specula...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article.
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell William Kinneard RoseWith the Greeks in ThessalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also am reading Berlin Diary, by Shirer, an American war correspondent. Our public men come out very badly in the years before the war.'Vere Hodgson William Lawrence ShirerBerlin DiaryPrint: Book
1700-1799'At some point after 1828, W[ordsworth] told Alexander Dyce that he read Bowles's Fourteen Sonnets on publication: "When Bowles's Sonnets first appeared, - a thin 4to pam...William Wordsworth William Lisle BowlesFourteen SonnetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with all the replies and rejoinders. Perceive that my n...George Gordon Lord Byron William Lisle BowlesvariousPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Lisle BowlesSonnets, and other poemsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'Have you ever seen Bowles’s poems & more particularly his sonnets? tho he be an Oxford man,[MS torn] name is little kno...Robert Southey William Lisle BowlesFourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written...Print: Book


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