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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I studied my [either Persian or Arabic] grammar this morning and went to the London Library where I looked through volumes and volumes of Asiatic Societies and found lit...Gertrude Bell Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I stumbled on the following in a work of Bulwer's published in /41 - it is curious. Speaking of France he says: "The vast masses of energy & life broken up by the great ...Mary Shelley Edward BulwerNight & MorningPrint: Book
1700-1799'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked on as an imitation of the tale of "Old Mortality", an...James Hogg Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it was heartrending to think of George and Alfred [reader...Arthur Vanson unknown[penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1800-1849'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because ...Jane Austen Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttelpublished letter about the status of her marriage ...Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I suppose I retained this view for about nine months. My thoughts have now radically changed, and this is due in a marked degree to the reading of Sir Robert Vansittart'...Robert VansittartBlack RecordPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has no great appetite'.Harriet Martineau Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederi...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I suppose Poems and Ballads will stand in the way of a Laureateship.'Robert Louis Stevenson Algernon Charles SwinburnePoems and Ballads [first series]Print: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you all well know Heads book.? for accuracy & animation it is beyond praise.'Charles Darwin Francis Bond HeadGallop: Rapid journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was m...James Hogg Francis Jeffrey[review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was m...Francis Jeffrey William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I suppose you read long ago the Hare ''Memorials of a Quiet Life''. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness...'Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. HareMemorials of a Quiet LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen...Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John TyndallGlaciers of the Alps, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell Wilhelm MeinholdAmber Witch, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant Edward JenkinsGinx's BabyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the British Empire Inevitable" (how true!); and "Shaping of F...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart A.K.[fragments, including something in French]Manuscript: Unknown


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