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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the R...Frank Oliphant Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all liter...Henry James Anthony TrollopeAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'George Eliot [pseud] Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'.Charles Lewes Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies 'John Buckley Castieau Anthony TrollopeWest IndiesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'Juliana Horatia Ewing Anthony TrollopeLast Chronicle of BarsetPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that p...Mr Glasser Anthony Trollope[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullhampton", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's boo...John Buckley Castieau Anthony TrollopeThe Vicar of BullhamptonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Charles Stansfield Anthony TrollopeDoctor ThornePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Howard R. Smith Anthony TrollopePrime Minister, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Reginald Robson Anthony TrollopeWarden, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Francis Pollard Anthony TrollopeThree Clerks, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Henry Marriage Wallis Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Francis Pollard Anthony Trollope Print: Book
1900-1945'Took the morning training from Euston to Carlisle, arriving at 4.30. Read Phineas Redeux all the way.'James Lees-Milne Anthony TrollopePhineas Redeux
1850-1899'I have just finished The Way of the World; there is only one person in it , no there are three — who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissi...Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony TrollopeThe Way We Live NowPrint: Book


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