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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.) It ought to be Helen with the High Hand. I really...Arnold Bennett Arnold BennettHelen with the High HandManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Morning it was so hot went into the garden and read. Afternoon Miss Klug began the most beautiful book called "Helen's babies" after lessons she read again tea in the ga...Gertrude Bell John HabbertonHelen's BabiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHelenaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr S- came in before 2.0 and gave me an interesting reading - here and there - from Dixon's "Hellas Revisited". Now and then he would mouth a passage from the Greek and ...William Soutar DixonHellas RevisitedPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an article in the Chronica Greca [paper actually entitled th...George Gordon Lord Byron Hellenica ChronicaPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should have been and was not," Winifred confessed, lamenting...Winifred Holtby George MooreHeloise and AbelardPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily reading of chapters [...] and by getting hold of all ...Harriet Martineau Mr KenrickHelon's Pilgrimage to JerusalemPrint: Book
1850-1899'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occup...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss FreerHenri IIIPrint: Book
1800-1849'A very fair measure of French and some skill in drawing appear to have been the most striking accomplishments which Charlotte carried back from Roe Head [school] to Hawo...Charlotte Bronte Voltaire HenriadePrint: Book
1700-1799'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ...Elizabeth Carter Charlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758]:] '"Henrietta" has been useful to us here, but there are many things in it that I dislike, and that tally with my opinion ...Catherine Talbot and familyCharlotte LennoxHenriettaPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta TemplePrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach Maidstone in good time on the follow'g day I ordered...John Marsh Richard CumberlandHenryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "Henry Brocken" all evening, as had finished prep. It's enchanting.'Hilary Spalding Walter de la MareHenry BrockenPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ...Gwen Raverat William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'they, the Scotts, where [sic] in a state of delight about Esmond, which Thackeray had given them'the ScottsWilliam Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfiel...Howard Smith William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown


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