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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of "Mrs Delany". The first was an enormous treat, - perhaps the greatest in the...Harriet Martineau Augusta Llanover (ed.)Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granvile ...Print: 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..
[...]...		Francis E. Pollard Augusta, Lady GregoryThe Workhouse WardPrint: 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..
[...]...		Bruce Dilks Augusta, Lady GregoryThe Workhouse WardPrint: 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..
[...]...		Rosamund Wallis Augusta, Lady GregoryThe Workhouse WardPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T...George Eliot (pseud) Auguste ComteCatechism Of Positive Religion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte on the Middle Ages'George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[on the Middle Ages]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste ComteThe Positive Philosophy of Auguste ComtePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Auguste ComteSyst?me de politique positivePrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "History of England", and Comte's correspondence with ...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[correspondence with Valat]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear preparatory view, at second-hand, from a friend [...] What ...Harriet Martineau Auguste ComteunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myself there was cordial affection, though they were Swe...anon Auguste ComteunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Auguste ComteCours de Philosophie PositivePrint: Book
1900-1945'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow...Ruth Slate Auguste ForelSexual EthicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rondeau On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles. See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them here uncut, − Drop them, recoiling, at the f...Robert Louis Stevenson Auguste MaquetLes Feuilles VertesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineRaphaelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineRudolph von WerdenbergPrint: Book
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineTinchen oder die MannerprobePrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We read part of l'Abbe Barruels histoire de Jacobinism"Percy Bysshe Shelley Augustin BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We read Abbe Barruel"Percy Bysshe Shelley Augustin BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book


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