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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details which do not interest me and there are no signs yet o...Sydney Smith (ed.) Richard BourkeCorrespondence of BurkePrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'.George Darwin (ed.) Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321.Vernon Lee (Eduard) Benjamin BaillaudDe la methode dans les sciencesPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere.Vernon Lee (Eduard) Benjamin BaillaudDe la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme seriePrint: Book
1900-1945'The appeal to my literary opinion was not fair. Suppose I had been in one of my cantankerous hours when the book came. But I daresay you were confident. And with reason....Joseph Conrad (Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle) Mrs Henry de La Pasture Peter's MotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'The reading of the "Man from the North" has inspired me with the greatest respect for your artistic conscience. I am profoundly impressed with the achievement of style.[...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettA Man from the North.Print: Book
1900-1945'But if I could not find time to write to you [to acknowledge receipt of the presentation copy] I had found time to read your book. I read it once, twice,then kept it up...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1900-1945'You must think me a brute. I don't even attempt to palliate an inexcusable delay in thanking you for "Leonora".[...] Yes. you can do things; you present them with a skil...Joseph Conrad (Enoch) Arnold BennettLeonoraPrint: Book
1900-1945'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life in Sarawak"] as soon as I ought to have done. Upon ...Joseph Conrad (Lady) Margaret BrookeMy Life in SarawakPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'.Ellen Crofts (probably) William Ernest Henley Print: Book
1700-1799Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.Gertrude Savile (Sir) John DenhamThe Sophy OR Poems and TranslationsPrint: Book
1700-1799Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think.Gertrude Savile (Sir) John VanbrughA Journey to London, being part of a comedy...Print: Book
1700-1799Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'.Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard SteeleThe Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read Life of Scott, Vol. VI. It is far more interesting than the former ones'.Harriet Martineau ? J. G. ?LockhartLife of Scott (vol. 6)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, in letter of August 1820: 'I have been reading after dinner, when it is too hot to write, "Anastatius." It is, as I had supposed, the substance of the MS. tr...Mary Berry ?Anastatius work on travels in EastPrint: Book
1900-1945'The books you sent me lasted beautifully. I read the two Lucases (which I loved) and the Hutchinson (mediocre) in the train and am now deep in "Ariel" which is delightfu...Gertrude Bell ?Arthur Stuart-Menteth ?HutchinsonunknownPrint: Book
1850-189919 June 1878: 'A really warm day, quite summer at last. I did not go out till after dinner. I have finished Alroy, and am reading Wilhelm Meister.' Lady Charlotte Schreiber ?Benjamin ?DisraeliAlroyPrint: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 15 October 1793: 'I called on the Princesse d'Hennin, who has been in town a week [...] She showed me several pieces of letters, I think fro...Horace Walpole ?Duchesse ?de BouillonLetters on developments in Revolutionary FranceManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer LyttonSt Stephen'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a littl...Gertrude Bell ?Edward Augustus ?Freeman?A History of Sicily from the earliest timesPrint: Book


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