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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have also read — for the first time — Hard Times.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensHard TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The ballad of Hardyknute has no great merit, if it be really ancient. People talk of nature. But mere obvious nature may be exhibited with very little power of mind.' ...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth, Lady WardlawHardyknutePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843: 'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the construction of ...Elizabeth Barrett Frances TrollopeHargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of FashionPrint: Book
1900-1945'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a half, lay awake on Christmas Eve gazing through the ...Vera Brittain Winifred HoltbyHarking Back to Long AgoUnknown
1850-1899' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and contin...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonHaroldUnknown
1850-1899Robert Browning to Alfred Tennyson, 21 December 1876: 'True thanks again, this time for the best of Christmas presents, another great work, wise, good, and beautiful. ...Robert Browning Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial thanks for sending me your "Harold." I have already rea...Aubrey de Vere Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899Aubrey de Vere to Alfred Tennyson, 28 December 1876: 'I do not like to defer longer sending you my most cordial thanks for sending me your "Harold." I have already rea...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonHaroldUnknown
1850-1899A. P. Stanley to Alfred Tennyson, 25 December 1876: 'I will gladly contrive if you wish to transmit your poem [Harold] to the Queen. I know that Her Majesty is expecti...A. P. Stanley Alfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite books were historical novels, and of these my grandfather's works took first place. Of all his works 'Harold' was my favourite'.Emily Lytton Edward Bulwer LyttonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Harold'Sarah Good Edward George Bulwer-LyttonHaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Elizabeth Hamilton Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased w...Miss H. Hector MacneilHarp, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to comment regretfully: "Many of us seem almost hopelessly en...Vera Brittain Harper's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Ha...Vera Brittain Raymond SwingHarper's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree that the convention is tight and affected and occa...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestHarriet HumePrint: Book
1900-1945'I say, has Rebecca West's book come your way? It is unreadable. It is a brew of Meredith, 'Orlando' and Amanda Ross.'Vita Sackville-West Rebecca WestHarriet HumePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'Mary Shelley Maria EdgeworthHarrington, a tale, and Ormond, a talePrint: Book
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1850-1899		'J. A. Leatherland clubbed together with some like-minded velvet weavers to purchase, "'Harris's Hermes', from which we gained some knowledge of the principles, elements ...Kettering velvet-weavers Harris's HermesPrint: Book


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