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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

2. The Secretary th...

Reginald H. Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with whom I usually spent the...Ivor Bertie Gurney Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme there (1932) laid down for treating decline of fame. T...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfDiary (17 May 1932)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842: 'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a [italics]consc...Elizabeth Barrett Frances BurneyDiary and Letters (Volume 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1842: 'I have only read the first volume of Madame D'Arblay's "Diary." Dr Johnson appears to the greatest possible ...Mary Russell Mitford Frances BurneyDiary and Letters (Volume 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842: 'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arblay's Diary and Letters] interesting & very interes...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Burney D'ArblayDiary and Letters (Volume 5)Print: Book
1800-1849'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, ver...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington MacaulayDiary and Letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you seen the Journal & letters of my dear Sister? & Charlotte Barrett's pretty Introduction. I earnestly hope the work will be liked; and I think it stands a very f...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Am charmed to find "The Diary" is approved by the General. The third vol: I think must be universally interesting - the [underlined] first [end underlining], to own the ...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'You want to know what I think of the "Diary". I wil tell you fairly & impartially. after wading with pain and sorrow through the tautology and vanity of the first volume...Sarah Harriet Burney Frances (Burney) d'ArblayDiary and letters of Madame d'ArblayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'John Ruskin Captain Frederick MarryatDiary in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945[in the sick bay with measles, after a week not allowed to read] 'I was very bored, and started reading "Diary of a District Officer". Matron says that I must not read m...Hilary Spalding Kenneth BradleyDiary of a District OfficerPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books: "His copy of an 1816 edition of Samuel Johnson's D...William Beckford Samuel JohnsonDiary of a Journey into North WalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenDiary of a late physicianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Diary of a Pilgrimage'Sarah Good Jerome K. JeromeDiary of a PilgrimagePrint: Book


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