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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'There is nothing fresh for me to write about. Am still in the same place and doing little work. A good deal of my time is spent reading, and at present my book is:...Thomas Wainwright Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'On the last day of my thirtieth year on earth I am writing a few lines. Have moved a mile or so and am now in a nice little village, the name of which I must not s...Thomas Wainwright Charlotte MoorMiss VaughanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Somebody sent me a little book called "Aunt Sarah and the War" the other day. Many thanks and jolly good—whoever it was! Send me the "Times" every now and again—wi...Arthur Oscar Hornung Wilfrid MeynellAunt Sarah and the WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'In literature it is only in Vaughan, Traherne, and other mystics, that I find any adequate expression of that perpetual rapturous delight in nature and my own ex...William Henry Hudson Thomas TraherneCenturies of Meditations or Poems of FelicityPrint: Book
1900-1945Linking a childhood memory of a great storm with a subsequent reading of Conrad's work: 'The wind blowing from this quarter is not like the south-west wind of the No...William Henry Hudson Joseph ConradThe Mirror of the SeaPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Prayer meeting 9 am. Litany & Sermon 10 am. Child of Boranzina died at 1 pm. Read "A God of Deliverance" by Saunders. It filled my eyes with tears & humbled me gre...Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alexander R. SaundersA God of DeliverancesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read three of Spurgeon's sermons on the great themes of the day.'Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Charles Haddon Spurgeon[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'St Patrick's Day. Read An Algonquin Bride by Alan Wetherall.'Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alan WetherallAn Algonquin BridePrint: Unknown
1900-1945Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place which nobody has left any b...Arthur Morris James Matthew BarrieSentimental TommyPrint: Book
1900-1945Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place which nobody has left any b...Arthur Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945‘A poor, miserable autobiographer naturally desires to make his personality as interesting to the reader as it appears to himself. I feel this strongly in reading o...William Henry Hudson Sergei AksakoffYears of ChildhoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of t...William Henry Hudson Henry SeebohmHistory of British BirdsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of...William Henry Hudson L. H. de V. ShawSnipe and WoodcockPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Edmund SelousBirdwatchingPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson Wadyslaw TaczanowskiOrnithologie du PérouPrint: Book
1900-1945'The natives call it Juancito—Little Jack, and all we have about is habits is a note by the bird collector Stolzmann, quoted by L. Jaczanski, in his third volume (O...William Henry Hudson A. B. R. Trevor-BattyePictures in ProsePrint: Book
1900-1945'I was much interested in your "Saturday [Review]" article [apparently about birds in Kew Gardens].'William Henry Hudson J. Rudge Harding'A Woodpecker at Kew'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'About "The Crown of Life", It is almost the only one of G. G. [George Gissing]'s books I haven’t read. It didn’t appeal to me—it was not a good Gissing book. Just ...William Henry Hudson George GissingWill WarburtonPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the time my wife goes to bed at 9 or soon after, I feel too tired to do anything except sit by the fire and read a little poetry, then go to bed myself—without ...William Henry Hudson [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'You have not perhaps seen the new "Gentleman’s Magazine" since it resumed publication. This is the first number—it was sent to me by the Editor Mr Bullen, who asks m...William Henry Hudson [n/a] [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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