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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry abo... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'.Arnold Bennett Ernest DupuyLes Grand Maitres de la litterature russePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informing or critical; also de Vog???s 'Le Roman russe'.Arnold Bennett Marie Eugene Melchior de VogueLe Roman russePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have employ’d the last term chiefly in making myself master of...the Νικομάχεια Ἠθικὰ of ...Hartley Coleridge AristotleNicomachean EthicsPrint: Book, university set text
1850-1899'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Co...Robert Louis Stevenson Various[Texts by or about 15th-century French literary an...Print: Probably books and articles.
1850-1899'I have finally decided to come north tomorrow at 2.15. I don't like not to be there — I can read Strzygowski all the way in the train, pace you! I shall come back ...Gertrude Bell Josef StrzygowskiunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the D...Eugenia Wynne Thomas Skinner SurrA Winter in London, or Sketches of FashionPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.'Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte- BeuveReview of Mme Epinay's MemoirsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.Sydney Smith William HeudeA Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overlan...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A most admirably entertaining work in four moderate litt...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, Sa Cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - a most admirably entertaining work, in four moderate...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, sa cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters...'Sarah Harriet Burney Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SevigneLetters of Madame de SevignePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Balfour. Of course I don't do the book justice, but the last two or three pages seem to me very inconclusive.' Emma Darwin A. J. BalfourThe Foundations of BeliefPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!'Jane Bailie Welsh Jean Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.'Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulayThe history of England from the accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' Albert Battiscombe Thomas Babington MacaulaySpeeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M....Print: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Nanon...'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandNanonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely be...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I am near the end of Egmont which I like infinitely bet...Jane Baillie Welsh Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEgmontPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but himself could have made such a play as Tell on such a p...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerWilliam TellPrint: BookManuscript: Sheet


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