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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just your case, -- having read only the first volume, ...Elizabeth Barrett Alexandre DumasFernandePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845: 'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --? I fancy I did, during the reading of the first sev...Elizabeth Barrett Alexandre DumasFernandePrint: Book
1900-1945'Now I'm reading Festivals of Fire, which I had sent for before I got your letter; it was most charming of you to offer to send it it to me, and I think it remarkable, an...Edith Sitwell Ronald BottrallFestival of FirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just got Festus - order it and read. You will most likely find it a great bore, but there are really very grand [both words underlined] things in festus... I have...Alfred Tennyson Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterli...Elizabeth Barrett Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals, of mine [...] wrote to me, praising [John] Sterli...anon Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: '[italics]Have[end italics] I read "Festus"? Certainly I have [...] Oh yes! I was much ...Elizabeth Barrett Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1850-1899?[William Ritson] was a lover of books ? specially fond of poetry. He lent me about this time a paper-backed copy of Bailey?s "Festus", which I read with great admiration...Thomas Burt Phillip James BaileyFestus: A poemPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912: 'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can see that you might write something astonishingly goo...Leonard Woolf Virginia Stephenfiction MSSManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were nev...Jane Austen Jane Austenfiction writingsPrint: Book
1800-1849Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first four stanzas as in 1807 edition, followed by furthe...Dorothy Wordsworth William WordsworthFidelityManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I always meant to ask you whether you read "Fidelity" by Susan Glaspell — of course you did, and didn't you think it excellent?'Gertrude Bell Susan GlaspellFidelityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I always meant to ask you whether you read "Fidelity" by Susan Glaspell — of course you did, and didn't you think it excellent? 'Gertrude Bell Susan GlaspellFidelityPrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1889 [...] [Charlotte Mew] had been reading [Richard] Jeffries' "Field and Hedgerow", his last essays, a book published after his death [which supplied the epigram fo...Charlotte Mew Richard JeffriesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1850-1899'Field and Hedgerow'Sarah Good Richard JefferiesField and HedgerowPrint: Book
1800-1849And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursi...Charles Dickens Henry Torrens [Sir]Field exercises and evolutions of the armyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of his poem Waterloo she writes: "These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and let me fairly add that I by no means expected to be ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottField of Waterloo, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'I [...] reflected that at battalion headquarters the charms of our library — O. Henry, the “Field Service Pocket Book” and “Spoon River” — were now rather wi...Edmund Blunden Great Britain General staff War Office Field Service Pocket BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Victory"] is her marvellous insight into the way of thi...Hastings Anderson Mary Augusta WardFields of VictoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more difficult than his verse or my head is much thicker than...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerFiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical ...Print: BookManuscript: Letter


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