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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I delayed sending you my acknowledgement for the September issue [of Blackwood's Magazine] [...]The appreciation of Mrs Oliphant's work is just in the right note. It is ...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thanks for the copy of the November number [of Blackwood;'s Magazine][...] I turned to "Tennyson" with eagerness.' Hence follow several line of discussion on this revi...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819: 'I have received your last number [...] As a series of essays, critical and humorous, it is excellent; but i...John Wilson Croker Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition of Don Quixote. Very fair. Nothing striking but disti...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I was delighted with the number. Gibbon especially fetched me quite. But everything is good. Munro's verses--excellent, and Whibley very interesting--very appreciative,...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and say you owe me compensation for an article {of} under ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising advance. I've just finished reading it having waited...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it was a most withering attack & Disreali (sic) can but ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a contributor, [7] December 1835:] 'It is not from affected hypocrisy that I comme...Branwell Bronte Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841: 'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I am seated in the dining-room alone [...] Papa is in t...Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Towards evening the General [George McMunn] lent me "Blackwood's Centenary", in which I read twice, with eager disappointment, Charles Whibley's tribute to H. C. [Storrs...Ronald Storrs Blackwood's Magazine Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I run on with leaden feet and do not seem to advance an inch. I see no one, read nothing but "Maga" which is a solace a treat, an event.' Hence follows a short comment...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's Magazine.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for ther...George Crabbe [n/a]Blackwoods Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slan...Thomas Carlyle Blackwoods MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make a good drama. The story is busy and pathetic. For t...J.P. Smith Mary Russell MitfordBlanch of Castile and other poemsManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral procession of Queen Victoria. He joined the crowd, and, to p...Newman Flower Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book


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