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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the first time. I have had it by heart these five weeks. I...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottBride of Lammermoor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not a...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown]Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Edward Wilberforce'Purgatory'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home'? It is very painful, and from the impression of ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Caroline Emelia StephenPassages in the life of a Daughter at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you know Doven's and Hagen's Hist. of German Poetry? I have seen it in the Edinr College Library, but read only a few pages of it.' Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Henrich von der HagenLiterarischer Grundriss zur Geschichte der deutsch...Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wrote Jane Eyre'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry KingsleyMademoiselle MathildePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual obser...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallEastern Studies, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street...Katherine Mansfield Louis VintrasThe Silver NetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know Soulary and Sully-Prudhomme? Such birds, both of them: Soulary a really consummate artist, More akin to Rosetti than anyone else in English: Sully-Prudhomme ...Robert Louis Stevenson SoularyunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Hood'Lady's Dream, The'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Do you know the Chiffonier of Paris by F. Pyat — O my lad, that a melo! what a melo!'Robert Louis Stevenson Felix PyatChiffonier de Paris
1900-1945'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose (Methuens, 1907).' Arnold Bennett Mrs Laurence BinyonNineteenth Century ProsePrint: 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
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 John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Do you know, these wet afternoons I have been reading the story of Aladdin to myself for pleasure, without a dictionary! It's not very difficult, I must confess, still i...Gertrude Bell AnonOne Thousand and One Nights (Arabian Nights)Print: Book
1800-1849'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me ...Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book


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