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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc...Grace Macaulay Wilhelm HeyFunfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig FabelnPrint: Book
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Further EastManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'Claire Clairmont Pierre-Laurent Buirette de BelloyGabrielle de Vergy, tragediePrint: Book
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected ...George Crabbe Horace SmithGaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comi...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding John LylyGalatheaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine Tragedy of Caius Gracchus. I like it much better than...Sarah Harriet Burney Vincenzo MontiGaleotto ManfrediPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante'Mary Shelley Vincenzo MontiGaleotto Manfredi, principe di FaenzaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, and her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 8 February 1831: 'What odd reports I spy in "Galignani" about Sir Ro...Harriet Countess Granville GalignaniPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "The Vampire" with the a...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -- I perceive that the "two greatest examples of huma...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): '[Galignani] ... has forwarded a copy of at least on...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work entitled "the Vampire" with the addition of my name as...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld. Byron's works -- the name of an "Ode to the land o...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. [...] 7th. [...] Read Southey's and Lord B's squabble in Galignani'.Claire Clairmont Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's newspaper -- & with all the disfiguration & curtailm...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 8 August 1820: 'Fletcher reads you in Galignani -- and comes grinning over your speeches to me -- he has already noted Seventeen ...'William Fletcher Galignani's NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Sir W. Follett to John Wilson Croker, from Paris, 6 October 1840: 'We saw in Galignani yesterday that George Giffard [Follett's brother-in-law, and a ward of Croker's]...Sir W. Follett Galignani['s Messenger?]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 5 September 1850:

'You sent the tragedy of "Galileo Galilei," by Samuel Brown [...] it contained, I remember, passages of...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel BrownGalileo GalileiPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 10 October 1801: 'We arrived here last night [...] This morning [...] Caro [Caroline Ponsonby, cousin] and...Harriet Cavendish Gallery catalogue, Hardwick HallUnknown
1900-1945'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intentions, the kimono was abandoned for such scanty liter...Vera Brittain John MasefieldGallipoliPrint: Serial / periodical, magazines


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