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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to exp...Charlotte Bronte Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Dr ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Margaret Emily Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1850-1899'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyHistorical Memorials of CanterburyPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850:

'I have just finished reading the Life of Dr Arnold [...] This is not a character to be dismissed with a...		Charlotte Brontë Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Dr ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Nov. Very interesting'Sarah Good Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of RugbyPrint: Book
1800-1849As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa...Edward Fitzgerald Arthur Penryn StanleyLife of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of RugbyPrint: Book
1900-1945'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)' Gerald Moore Arthur W. PollittThe Enjoyment of MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849'They give the picture of a consumate man, in whom the signal aptitude for detail does not detract from, but adds largely to the impression of his even & capacious greatn...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Arthur Wellesley, Duke of WellingtonDespatches of the Duke of WellingtonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Monday 20th September ?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)' Gerald Moore Ashley Thorndike (ed.)Minor Elizabethan DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de Custine?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the Fre...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is written with a brand of frame, but I feel that my recol...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de CustineLa RussiaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845: 'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & think your thoughts of it. Good things, excellent thi...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de CustineLe Monde comme il estPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsley's letters, by which I have been greatly touched [....Henry James Aubrey BeardsleyThe Last Letters of Aubrey BeardsleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'His Irish book seems to me from the little I have read very clever.'Alfred Tennyson Aubrey de VereEnglish Misdeeds and Irish MisrulePrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ...John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]Print: Unknown
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1600-1699		'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close associate and disciple of [Peter] Ramus in his programme ...Gabriel Harvey Audomarus TalaeusAcademiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley August Strindberg[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read The Inferno. It is wonderful, the most awful study of on-coming madness one could think of, and the strange thing is, it is entirely a writer's madness. I me...Edith Sitwell August StrindbergThe InfernoUnknown


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