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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am delighted more than I can tell you with Margt Lindsay. It is a charming work pure, elegant, and perfect; all save two or three trivial misnomers regarding the chara...James Hogg John WilsonTrials of Margaret Lyndsay, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late Duke'.George Crabbe George Crabbe[funeral address for Duke of Rutland]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I am disappointed in the "Life". His dull sons have put in such a quantity of repetition that one is quite weary of the same religious sentiment repeated 50 times over i...Emma Wedgwood Robert Isaac & Samuel WilberforceLife of William WiberforcePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a time pass before thanking you for the Gissing book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"], as I suppose it was...William Henry Hudson George GissingThe House of Cobwebs and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am disgusted with myself for letting so long a time pass before thanking you for the Gissing book ["The House of Cobwebs and other stories"], as I suppose it was...William Henry Hudson George GissingThe Private Papers of Henry RyecroftPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your third indictment of the instrument is quite new.' Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsScepticism of the Instrument
1800-1849'I am doubtful whether the opinion of the world is so much in favour of Richardson's talents as formerly. It appears to me that there is not one character in the whole wo...Sir William Elford Samuel RichardsonClarissa; or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am driven by stress of bad novels to Carlyle again.'Emma Darwin Thomas CarlyleUnknown, possibly Letters and Memorials of Jane We...Print: Book
1700-1799'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, when done, will amuse me by reading over again, a ver...Samuel Richardson various authors correspondence and other papersManuscript: Letter, letters and papers
1900-1945'I am enjoying Moule's "Veni Creator".'Albert Ruskin Cook Handley Carr Glyn MouleVeni CreatorPrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1800-1849'I am exceedingly disgusted with the last beastly Noctes and as it is manifest that the old business of mockery and redicule [sic] is again beginning I have been earnestl...James Hogg 'Noctes Ambrosianae. No. XLII' [Blackwood's Edinbu...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Cassandra Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Fanny Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' Arnold Bennett Samuel ButlerNotebooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am extremely gratified by the arrival of your book of Supermen. [...] your pages can give nothing but pleasure to a man who loves "la littérature critique" (not litera...Joseph Conrad J. (James) G. (Gibbons) HunekerEgoists: A Book of SupermenPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late for Friday's post for me to acknowledge them. I hav...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to W.S. Williams]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read... [n/a][daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read...C E M Joad[unknown]Print: Book


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