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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.George Eliot [pseud] BekkerChariklesPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently ...Charles Dickens Grantley BerkelyChariot versus coachManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word of the wonderful preface to the last short sketch o...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamCharityPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all. I have seen much of h...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien BuonaparteCharlemagneManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.'George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien BuonaparteCharlemagneUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 14 February 1814, 'Have you read Lucien B[onaparte]' s Epic? I attempted it, but gave in at the 6th Canto, being pressed for time. ...William Wordsworth Lucien BonaparteCharlemagne, ou L'Eglise Sauvee, poeme epique en 2...Print: Book
1800-1849'From Charlemagne a poem by Lucien Bonaparte.' [followed by English translation, 'copied']Bowly groupLucien BonaparteCharlemagne... Poeme EpiqueUnknown
1850-1899'I do not like Grant Allen's book about your father. It is prancing and wants simplicity.'Emma Darwin Grant AllenCharles DarwinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, 21st June 1944
F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

10. It was too late to hear the readings from Chest...		[unnamed member[s] of the XII Book Club] G. K. ChestertonCharles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Francis E. Pollard G. K. ChestertonCharles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Grove House. 16th October 1944
    J. Knox Taylor in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last me...		Francis E. Pollard G. K. ChestertonCharles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that book, collated by his wife, one can read how, just ...Stuart Wood Frances KingsleyCharles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his ...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Eliza KingsleyCharles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Barry CornwallCharles Lamb: A MemoirPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I tried on...Elizabeth Barrett Charles James LeverCharles O'MalleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'A South Wales miner, raised in an orphanage, acknowledged that "Robin Hood was our patron saint, or ideal. We sincerely believed in robbing the rich to help the poor". (... anonCharles PeacePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849"Under his instruction -while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' of Moliere - I caught hold of such good French pron...Thomas Cooper VoltaireCharles the TwelfthPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calcula...Jane Baillie Welsh William RobertsonCharles VPrint: Book
1850-1899Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne T. Wemyss ReidCharlotte Bronte: A MonographPrint: Book
1850-1899The Bronte enthusiast Sidney Biddell to Charlotte Bronte's former schoolfriend, Ellen Nussey, 15 May 1883:

'Miss Robinson's "Emily Bronte" is prettily enou...		Sidney Biddell Thomas Wemyss ReidCharlotte Bronte: A MonographPrint: Book


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