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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace ThackerayRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899'How I hate Thackeray's women. He makes Mrs Pen and Laura behave exactly like the women in ''Ruth'' who are so detestable, and Thackeray thinks it quite right.'Emma Darwin William Makepeace Thackeray[general reference to Thackeray's novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Margaret Dilks William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Muriel Stevens William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Charles E. Stansfield William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Reginald H. Robson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Hillsborough”: 24 Jan 1940 R. H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
7. Two one act plays were then...		Bruce Dilks William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Muriel Stevens William Makepeace ThackerayThe Rose and the RingPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am glad to hear you have read Esmond: it is one of my favourite novels, and I hardly know which to praise most, the wonderful, musical Queen Anne English, or the del...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Henry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Can you guess what I have been reading this week? Of all things in the world "Pendennis"! Isn't this the one you find too much for you? I am nearly through the fir...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Pendennis, his Fortunes and Misfort...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...' (2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed the end better than any parts excep...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also going through Vanity Fair again. It seems another world.'Vere Hodgson William Makepeace ThackerayVanity FairPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know this modern six-shilling mummer of "life," called Galsworthy? You may be aware that he has recently published, among other novels, a creation, "Beyond,...Wainwight Merrill William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of PendennisPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad William Makepeace ThackerayThe History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfort...Print: Book
1900-1945I am wading through “Barry Lyndon” the first book of Thackeray’s I have ever got into and I don’t find it at all too bad.Arthur Morris William Makepeace ThackerayThe Luck of Barry LyndonPrint: Book
1850-1899Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay fr...Wordsworth FamilyWilliam Michael RossettiBiographical essay on WordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetical Works of Christina Georgina Rossetti, to which he...Virginia Woolf William Michael RossettiMemoir of Christina RossettiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touch...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 24 November 1882:

'I have lately been much interested in read...		Sidney Biddell William Michael RossettiA Memoir of ShelleyPrint: Book


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