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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany I.G. Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-HolsteinGermanyPrint: Book
1900-1945in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she de...Harriet Beer Baroness Emmuska OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critical...Henry James Barrett Wendellcritical study of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's annotations, at owners' requests, of copies of Barry Cornwall, Dramatic Scenes, and Charles Tennyson Turner, Sonnets and Fugitive Pi...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Barry CornwallDramatic ScenesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Barry CornwallCharles Lamb: A MemoirPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Anacreontic Lay', beginning 'Sing! - who sings!/ To her who weareth a hundred rings? / Ah who ...Barry CornwallAnacreontic LayUnknown
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'Thomas Medwin Barry Cornwall [pseud.]Dramatic Scenes, and other poemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It includes however Bernard Shaw, Schopenhauer, Barry Pai...Leonard Woolf Barry Pain Print: Book
1900-1945'10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'William Thomas Barry PainMrs MurphyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Mrs Murphy by Frank Richardson
Read Ship's Coy by WW Jacobs.'		William Thomas Barry PainMrs MurphyPrint: Book
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St HelenaPrint: Book
1800-1849'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I would have returned the book immediately, finding how lo...Jane Baillie Welsh Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St HelenaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so many books-'Jane Baillie Welsh Barry Edward O'MearaNapoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-HelenaPrint: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' Arnold Bennett Bart KennedyAmerica RevisitedPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-FrondVoyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrid...Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his...Mary Berry Bartholomew MercierLe Nouveau ParisPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Mercier's "Nouveau Paris", a sort of continuation of his...Mary Berry Bartholomew MercierTableau de ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843: 'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have read many of his poems in Blackwood. He falls, to ...Elizabeth Barrett Bartholomew SimmonspoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Percy Bysshe Shelley Bartolome Las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Bartolome de las CasasBrevissima relacion de la destruycion de las India...Print: Book


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