√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner' John Ruskin Jeremias Gotthelf Anne Babi Print : Book1850-1899 'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occup... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss Freer Anne of Austria Print : Book1900-1945 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon... Mary Lakeman Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Avonlea Print : Book1900-1945 After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus had been transmogrified into a more abstract sense of... Patricia Beer L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Print : Book1900-1945 'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue Muriel Stevens Ethel C. Stevens Anne Thackeray’s Chapters from Memory 1900-1945 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] & spent the afternoon with him, & we had a jolly time... Frances Stevenson Herbert George Wells Anne Veronica Print : Book1850-1899 George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 30 September 1852:
'Neither the work of Beaufort sur l'Histoire Romaine -- nor the works of the Abbe St. Pierre --
are to be got in Pari... George Grote Abbe St Pierre Annees Politiques Print : BookH. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos... anon Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Jo... Manuscript : annotation in printed text1850-1899 'My dear Colvin, Thanks for your pencilations. One thing only, remains; how am I to call the followers of Orso and Manfredi.' Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin annotations Manuscript : Letter, annotations1850-1899 "Ezra Pound, having acquired a copy of Algernon Swinburne's Laus Veneris already annotated by somebody else, took pains to dissociate himself from the other's views [addi... Ezra Pound annotations in copy of Algernon Swinburne, Laus Ve... Manuscript : annotations in printed text1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... George Steevens Thomas Percy annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the... 1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... George Steevens William Oldys annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the... "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '... annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Fo... Manuscript : annotations in printed text1800-1849 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many thanks -- we have read them
all, & admired them al... Thomas Westwood Elizabeth Barrett Annotations in Richard Hengist Horne, The Ballad o... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 "[in November 1803, when Coleridge was thirty-one] Wordsworth had been reading Shakespeare's sonnets in Coleridge's copy of a set of the Works of the British Poets, in wh... Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth annotations on Shakespeare's sonnets in The Works ... Manuscript : annotations in printed text1800-1849 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History... Harriet Grote Sir William Gomm Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (... 1800-1849 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he occupied himself with the study of Grote's "History... George Grote Sir William Gomm Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (... 1700-1799 Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1791: 'Florence. -- Went to see the Laurentian Medicean Library [...] The librarian, a very civil Canonico Bandini, showed us the Virgil of ... Mary Berry Francesco Petrarch annotations to manuscript copy of works of Horace Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837:
'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions[end italics] in "Strafford," seeing it on the
tab... Robert Browning William Charles Macready annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 "The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byr... anon William Beckford Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgeme... Manuscript : annotations in printed text
