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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[In Germany] C[oleridge] read [Frederika] Brun's Chamouny beym Sonnenaufgange, which provided the inspiration for his Hymn Before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouni.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frederika BrunChamouny beym SonnenaufgangeUnknown
1700-1799'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very humorous Piece of Advice to all who went to Court, to...Laetitia Pilkington [n/a]Champion, ThePrint: Newspaper, Pamphlet
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack it as soon as I finish Conrad's "Chance". I have so...Henry James Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. "Bealby" I have never read. Wells sends me all his...Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradChancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Chances'Mary Shelley John FletcherChances, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Change' 'And this is what is left of youth/...' [in 'Fragments' section of 1831 text]Carey/Maingay groupLaetitia LandonChangePrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What ...Harriet Martineau G.H. LewesChapter on Auguste ComtePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I di...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordChapters on the Poets of Ancient GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was inviolable. He was writing the [italics] Character and...Colley Cibber Colley CibberCharacter and Conduct of Cicero Considered Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road 14/4/31
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[...]
5 The subject of Wordsworth was then taken[.]...		Howard Smith William WordsworthCharacter of the Happy WarriorPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754: 'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask you whether I had dreamt it, or whether it was possi...Catherine Talbot Anthony Ashley CooperCharacterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [v...Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755: 'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only remember that I was in general charmed with his imagi...Elizabeth Carter Anthony Ashley CooperCharacterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions.Print: Book
1700-1799'It is known to every learned Divine, that the Priests engross'd the whole Country of [italics] Egypt [end italics], as the eldest Son of ev'ry Priest was born a Priest, ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of ShaftesburyCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1800-1849Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson: 'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with similes about groves and violets, and streams of musi...Arthur Hallam Mrs JamesonCharacteristicsPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics...Joseph Arnould Johann Gottlieb FichteCharacteristics of the Present AgePrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Mrs JamesonCharacteristics of WomenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...'Thomas Green Philip Dormer StanhopeCharacters of eminent personages of his own timePrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittCharacters of Shakespeare's PlaysPrint: Book
1850-1899''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'George Eliot [pseud] Bekker (or Becker?)ChariklesPrint: Book


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