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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899[between journal entries for 26 January and 29 September 1881] 'When Parliament adjourned for a recess in April Charles Schreiber [M.P.] was obliged to go to Liverpool...Lady Charlotte Schreiber John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a little hill" by Helen Rawlings. Howard R. Smith read from...Howard R. Smith John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you take Chambers's Journal? The opening article I like very much, on that beautiful line from Keats, 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'; another of the leading ...Eliza Ellis John KeatsEndymionPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh VirgilEneidPrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have been reading Von Raumer’s England. He speaks highly of the Table talk and of my father, though some of the sentiments are at variance with his own.’Hartley Coleridge Friedrich von RaumerEngland in 1835: Being a Series of Letters Written...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 31 January 1808: 'Read through Roscoe's pamphlet and Spence's "England Independent of Commerce."'Mary Berry William SpenceEngland Independent of CommercePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.'Hilary Spalding A.G. MacdonellEngland their EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int...Hilary Spalding A.G. MacdonellEngland their EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Margaret Dilks A. G. MacdonellEngland Their EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas W DymockEngland's Dust and Ashes Raked upPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Having asked Lord Rosebery for a Preface to her "England's Effort"] Knowing that he was never strong, she fully expected a refusal, but found instead that he had alread...Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Mary Augusta WardEngland's EffortPrint: proofs
1850-1899[Letter] 'The two articles in the ''Fortnightly'' by Greg and Gladstone are very striking; I think the first G. so reasonable and cool and the second so fiery and full o...Emma Darwin William Ewart GladstoneEngland's MissionPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.'Samuel Pepys Samuel FortreyEnglands interest and improvement consisting in th...Print: Book
1600-1699'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely bound up - a treatise concerning the benefit the Hol...Samuel Pepys Tobias GentlemanEnglands way to win wealth... with a true relation...Print: Book
1800-1849'... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendly autograph. I need not say how much I feel the hono...Alfred Tennyson Ferdinand FreiligrathEnglische Gedichte als Neurer ZeitPrint: Book
1800-1849'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers] "some weeks - or perhaps months - ago...Thomas De Quincey George Gordon, Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, by Lord Byron. It is well wr...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much...Maria Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30

R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subject of “Medieval Social Life” wh...		George Burrow Elizabeth Godfrey [pseud. of Jessie Bedford]English Children in the Olden TimePrint: Book


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