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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'.William Godwin Lady Caroline LambGraham HamiltonManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowledge, and immediately set about remedying these twin d...William Lovett Lindley MurrayGrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone GilchristGrammarPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight de...John Drummond Erskine John RichardsonGrammar of the Arabick language in which the rules...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one i...John Drummond Erskine William JonesGrammar of the Persian Language, APrint: Book
1800-1849Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some inst...Anne Lister John AshGrammatical InstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been most shockingly idle, actually reading two novels at once. a good scolding would do me a vast deal of good, & I hope you will send one of your most severe on...Charles Darwin Thomas Henry ListerGranbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 28 March 1826: 'Reading at intervals a novel called Grandby [sic] one of that very difficult class which aspires to describe the actual current of society; ...Walter Scott T. H. ListerGranbyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 li...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larousse'. Arnold Bennett Grand LaroussePrint: Book
1900-1945'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ...Bernard Kops Rupert BrookeGrantchesterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished chiefly in bed after the House. I like it extremely; perhaps there is not quite so much power as in Ellen Middleton, but it is full of beauty & interest; one ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Georgiana FullertonGrantleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Polishness which I took from Mickiewicz and Slowacki. My father read "Pan Tadeusz" aloud to me and made me read it aloud. Not just once or twice. I used to prefer "K...Joseph Conrad Adam MickiewiczGrazynaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and actions of the Great Marquis of Montrose, that I think ...Jennet Pryce GardinerGreat Civil WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Walter Wilson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the cover [school prize details]... It was the first of ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anything else of D[ickens]. known to me. Very fine writi...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'... your remarks on Great Expectations are very good. We have both re-read it this winter .. The object being a play ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shopped and tried to find some books. Succeeded at last in getting "The Great Ship", the play by Linklater that JG was in last year on the wireless.' [NB "The Great ...Hilary Spalding Eric LinklaterGreat Ship, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook James Hastings (ed.)Great Texts of the Bible: PsalmsPrint: Book


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