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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:

'I despatch to-day a box of return books [loaned by Williams]: among them will be found two or three of th...		Charlotte Brontë Alphonse de LamartineHistory of the Restoration of Monarchy in FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Anne Marsh'The Deformed'Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte:

'"I recollect [...] [Bronte's] saying how acutely she dreaded a charge of plagiarism when, after she had...		Charlotte Brontë Frederika BremerThe NeighboursPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charles Kingsley to Elizabeth Gaskell, 14 May 1857:

'Let me renew our long interrupted acquaintance by complimenting you on poor Miss Bronte's "Life." You ...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Charlotte BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Emily BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen Nussey, 5 April 1882:

'I am an architect's daughter and like th...		Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Anne BrontëunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899

[A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls:]


'On fir...

Anon Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Life of a coster girl — one of six children, "She [mother] always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones had to lea... unknown Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'The man, a tall, thick-built, almost goodlooking fellow, with a large fur cap on his head, lived with his family in a front kitchen, and as there were, with his mother-i... unknown Print: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Interview with a execution broadsheet seller visiting poor villages in Norfolk: 'Not long after Rush was hung, he saw, one evening after dark, through the uncurtained co... [broadsheet of Rush's execution]Print: Broadsheet
1800-1849
1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster Benjamin FaringtonScience and Politics in the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) thinks that Ionia observed and experimented freely; that ...Edward Morgan Forster F. M. CornfordFrom Religion to PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messiah' (Forster's heading) noted underneath by Forster ...Edward Morgan Forster John NewtonSermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')Print: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addresses to and by the personification of 'Dulness', begi...Edward Morgan Forster Alexander PopeThe Dunciad (books I and II)Print: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effe...Edward Morgan Forster Arthur Hugh CloughDipsychusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive generations of civilised people from Lord Acton's Lec...Edward Morgan Forster William Wordsworth'Sonnet on Napoleon'Print: Book
1800-1849
1900-1945		Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame de Sevigne, the first of which, Forster notes under...Edward Morgan Forster Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book


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