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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...Alfred Rawlings Demon Lover, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Allan Goadby Demon SleepPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905; May 12 1918 (at Welcombe). He notes the dates when ...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur ...Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793

'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since you left me, except two books of Dr Rando...		Elizabeth Smith [unknown]Den golden spiegelPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von SchellingDenkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen DingenPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was a very full attendance & a lively discussion of the Departmental Committee's Report on Physical Deterioration was discussed in many of its bearings, introduced...Members of the XII Book Club Departmental Committee Report on Physical Deterior...Print: Book
1900-1945'The priest brother would give us English songs on his Gramophone ... They were v. decent & I should have liked to partake the funny dinner but we returned to Vaton...Cecil Vincent Connolly Rudyard KiplingDepartmental DittiesPrint: Book
1900-1945 '. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de Toulouse".' Arnold Bennett Depeche de ToulousePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with page references pasted into the volume opposite the ti...Vernon Lee Karl GroosDer Aesthetische GenussPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDer BurgergeneralPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday March 23rd. [...] Read Der Gang nach dem [...] Eisenhammer -- von Schiller.' [further readings from this text recorded in journal entry for 26 March 1821, with...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDer Gang nach dem EisenhammerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Johann Friedrich von SchillerDer GeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Gottlieb FichteDer Geschlossne HandelsstaatPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard VehseDer Hof zu WeimarPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday April 5th. Begin Der Kampf mit dem Drachen von Schiller.' [readings from this text also recorded on 7 and 8 April 1820, with 'Finish Der Kampf mit dem Dra...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDer Kampf mit dem DrachenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Heinrich HoffbauerDer Mensch in allen Zonen der ErdePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday April 2nd. [...] Read Der Ring des Polycrates.' Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDer Ring des PolycratesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare....George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDer SalonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rear flyleaf. This volume was given to Vernon Lee by Lu...Vernon Lee Lujo BrentanoDer wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichtePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in Voltaire, Des Singularites de la Nature (incorporati...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Des Singularites de la NaturePrint: Book


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