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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow...Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (second volume)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes)Print: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after coach and steamboat journey]. Installed myself in a...Fanny Kemble Benjamin DisraeliContarini FlemingPrint: Book
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton...Albert Battiscombe Benjamin DisraeliConingsby; or, The new generationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft for my syllabus on the Historical novel.' Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book for our syllabus purposes.' Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I re...Lord Lyndhurst Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853: 'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to become from such a strange mixture of things [described ...John Wilson Croker Benjamin Disraeli'Buckinghamshire speeches'Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844: 'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet scarcely efficient [...] It has no story, & not a g...Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliConingsby: or, The New GenerationPrint: Book
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; ...Virginia Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 30 April 1845: 'You ask me questions, "if I like novels," [...] There is a story of D'Israeli's, an old one, wi...Robert Browning Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845: 'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'.Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905: 'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappointed: isn't he rather metallic? I read a good deal i...Leonard Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta TemplePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] read many novels after his evening's work, and among others he looked through Henrietta Temple again. He had told Disraeli that the "silly sooth" of love w...Alfred Tennyson Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1850-1899'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also an...John Buckley Castieau Benjamin DisraeliLothairPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza litera...Oscar Wilde Benjamin DisraelinovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 11 June 1827: 'The attendance on the committee and afterwards the Gnl meeting of the Oil Gas Company took up my morning and the rest dribbled away in correctin...Walter Scott Benjamin DisraeliVivian GreyPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book
1850-189927 May 1878: 'Up early and off by the 11.30 train [from Fulda] to Berlin. They have a curious plan at Fulda of sounding the reveille at 4 o'clock in the morning [...] ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Benjamin DisraeliSybil, or The Two NationsPrint: Book


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