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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Finished "In heart of Africa".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Adolphus Frederick Albert Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin In the Heart of AfricaPrint: BookUnknown
1850-1899'Finished "Kelly"s book on Victoria; it is very interesting tho rather coarse' Albert Battiscombe William KellyLife in Victoria, or, Victoria in 1853 and Victori...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliLa MandragolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1850-1899'finished "Lady of Glynne".'John Ruskin Julia Cecilia StrettonLady of GlynnePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Les Cosaques" and began "Il Santo" which is rather dull reading. Saw a good many swallows some of which rested on the ship.'Gertrude Bell Antonio FogazzaroIl SantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and ...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Quentin Durward"'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Soul of a Bishop", containing some good meat as always, and thinnish plot.'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsThe Soul of a Bishop: A novel (with just a little ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Sunset Song". No doubt at all about the richness, the routhiness of this book. Careless, often unnecessarily "course", to employ his own far too much over-work...William Soutar Lewis Grassic GibbonSunset SongPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Geoffrey ChaucerKnight's Tale, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningLuriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "Villette", and went fast asleep on couch.'Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Burke on the "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'Thomas Green Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...' Thomas Green [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Finished Abdominal Injuries.'Albert Ruskin Cook James Rutherford MorisonAbdominal InjuriesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1900-1945'Finished all my prep so indulged in a little fiction reading - "The Headmistress" - very light & witty.'Hilary Spalding Angela ThirkellHeadmistress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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