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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My fa...Joseph Stamper Mrs Henry [Ellen] WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1850-1899'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my reading "East Lynne", which I did at three sittings. Yes...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Mrs Henry WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1900-1945‘Reading East Lynne’George Adcock Weston Ellen WoodEast LynnePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:

'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep ...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet MartineauEastern LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know his [Sir Alfred Lyall's] books? The "Eastern Studies" is, I think, the most interesting work of the kind that I have ever read. It explains from actual obser...Leslie Stephen Sir Alfred LyallEastern Studies, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945 I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marvellous. Thank Gertrude for me. . . I am also dieting...Arnold Bennett Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah MenusPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured The Incredible Journey (the book to secure next hig...Howard R. Smith Llewelyn PowysEbony and IvoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha...Lillian Faithfull and motherJohn SeeleyEcce HomoPrint: Book
1900-1945[Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w...Edwin Muir Friedrich NietzscheEcce HomoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'John Ruskin J.R. SeeleyEcce HomoPrint: Book
1850-1899?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall...Leslie Stephen John Robert SeeleyEcce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary Shelley [n/a]EcclesiastesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books specially studied during furlough. 1917–1918.

The World & the Gospel. J. H. Oldham. S.V.M.U.
The Valley of Decision. Burroughs. Longmans.
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Minos DevineEcclesiastes: Or, the Confessions of an Adventurou...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, [c.19 February 1810] (letter fragmentary): 'Have you seen my Brother Christopher's publication? Lives of eminent men connected with ...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher WordsworthEcclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men ...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claude FleuryEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaig...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded...H. Wansey Venerable BedeEcclesiastical history of the English Nation, from...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend br...Robert Southey Robert RobinsonEcclesiastical ResearchesPrint: Book


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