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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'In a little book of poems by J S Squire called Twelve Poems there is one poem called March which I think quite beautiful. Do you know Mr Squire? ... He writes to m...Maurice Baring William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1850-1899'We even sat on deck though the ship rolled too much to allow of our having up deck chairs. Read Rose's "Greek War" lent me by Sir W.S. [Smith]; "Life of Nicholson" the d...Gertrude Bell F. Marion CrawfordCorleone: A Tale of SicilyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement of the Mind". Read part of "Corn Law Rhymes" to my f...Joseph Jenkinson Ebeneezer ElliotCorn Law RhymesPrint: Book
1600-1699'After he was gone, I fell a-reading "Cornelianum Dolium" till 11 a-clock at night, with great pleasure; and after that to bed.'Samuel Pepys Thomas RandolphCornelianum DoliumPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re...Henry James Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'Albert Battiscombe [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I liked your ... "Berlioz" better.'Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyCornhill Magazine 'Hector Berlioz: a Biography'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Henry George GreyCorrected Report of the Speech of Viscount HowickPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward Joseph JoubertCorrespondancePrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Gustave FlaubertCorrespondancePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy...George Gordon, Lord Byron Friedrich Melchoir GrimmCorrespondance LitterairePrint: Book
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1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's general correspondence with the close attention of a...Henry James Gustave FlaubertcorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost all I ever read of.'Harriet Martineau Edward GibboncorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842: 'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming" being the right word, since I verily & indeed bel...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel RichardsonCorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of them relate. My father is much annoyed at having so man...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George SelwynCorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Briefwechsel [Goethe-SChiller correspondence] I have also read; and must soon read again; purposing to make it the handle for an Essay on Schiller, in the Foreign Re...Thomas Carlyle Goethe & SchillerCorrespondencePrint: Book


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