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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon.'Claire Clairmont Antoine Marin LemierreHypermnestrePrint: Book
1700-1799'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample sat...James Lackington Antoine-Joseph PernetyThe History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkla...Print: Book
1900-1945'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc...Katherine Mansfield Anton ChekhovGenevaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc...Katherine Mansfield Anton ChekhovHamiltonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'. Charlotte Mew Anton Chekhov Print: Book
1900-1945'February 12. J. [Middleton Murry] read the Tchehov [sic] aloud. I had read one of the stories myself and it seemed to me nothing. But read aloud it was a masterpiece. ...J. Middleton Murry Anton ChekhovunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.Gerald Gould Anton ChekhovunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book, written by a man who is a curious mixture of impuls...Arnold Bennett Anton ChekhovThe Tales of TchehovPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants from Chekhov's story 'Uprooted.'Edward Morgan Forster Anton Chekhov'Uprooted'Print: Book
1900-1945 . . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Chekhov . . .Arnold Bennett Anton ChekhovLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with...Joseph Conrad Anton ChekhovThe Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Howard Smith Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Muriel Stevens Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham. Saturday 11th July ’42 H. R. Smith in the chair
[...]
3. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed..
[...]...		Arnold Joselin Anton ChekhovThe ProposalPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Someone has lent me two of Tchekof’s [Chekhov]'s plays—"The Sea-gull" and "The Cherry Orchard". The first I have read twice and am very struck with it—for its truth ...Ivor Bertie Gurney Anton ChekhovThe SeagullPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843: 'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoirs of Beethoven'.Elizabeth Barrett Anton Felix SchindlerThe Life of BeethovenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nigh...George Eliot [pseud.] Anton Francesco DoniI MarmiPrint: Book
1900-1945'Find no desire to write this book ['The Lost Traveller'] since Tom read it. It produced a effect on him at first but that seemed to wear off.'Tom Hopkinson Antonia WhiteLost Traveller, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave me a real shock - perhaps because it so confirmed my...Tom Hopkinson Antonia White[diary notebook]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.'Susan Glossop Antonia WhiteFrost at MidnightPrint: Book


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