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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897: 'I have read, of course, every word -- and I think ...Henry James Arthur Christopher BensonDiaryUnknown
1900-1945'This week I have been reading a most remarkable book which has created a great impression. it is "The Upton Letters", a series of letters from a school master at "Upto...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher BensonThe Upton LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'This week I have taken a course of A. C. Benson's essays, which have impressed me very favourably indeed. Do you know them? He has a clear, simple, but melodious style...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher Benson[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ...Percy Wall Arthur Conan Doyle[Sherlock Holmes Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Arthur Conan DoyleSir NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have been so heavy and tired all the time that I can only ma...Antonia White Arthur Conan Doyle[Sherlock Holmes Stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'The literary orderly has been quoting Rodney Stone outside! I said I would tell the author.'Arthur Conan DoyleRodney StonePrint: 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 Arthur Donald InnesGeneral Sketch of Political History From the Earli...Print: Book
1850-1899'I had a good lunch at Calais — how I love the lunch at Calais don't you! — and am now extremely comfy in a sleeping compartment all to myself. The train is n...Gertrude Bell Arthur Edward J. LeggeEither Mutineers OR Both Great and SmallPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus, which had before excited my attention'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dowson has lent me Clough, which I like a good deal ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849: 'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, at last. Clough has more thought, Burbidge more music...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningArthur Hugh CloughThe Bothie of Toper-Na-FuosichPrint: Unknown
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1900-1945		'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or the world of ambition greed & snobbery. So its effe...Edward Morgan Forster Arthur Hugh CloughDipsychusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was pleased to see your quotation from Clough. I used it myself in an approximate form, and with doubtful attribution to C., in another article ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Hugh CloughAmours de VoyagePrint: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass in some lovely valley near Cauteretz, had read alou...Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh CloughMari MagnoManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Arthur John Jex-BlakeTuberculosis: A General Account of the Disease, It...Print: Book
1850-1899It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, your little book, coming from so far, gave me all the ple...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinSweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more particularly than I can from memory; […] I was very mu...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett MartinBret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction.Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as you ought: verse five is surely not [italics]quite melodio...Robert Louis Stevenson Arthur Patchett Martin'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'.Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical).
1800-1849'I could not have liked a book more; the predominant feelings has been but selfish - oh, why was I not brought up under him, or as that could not be, why could Inot have ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur Penhyrn StanleyLife of Thomas ArnoldPrint: Book


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