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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the Tyrant - suggested by the pigs at the fair of St Giul...Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley Catherine MacaulayHistory of England from the Accession of James I t...Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:] 'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only some extracts from it, which seemed to be writ with st...Elizabeth Carter Catherine Macaulay'History' [extracts]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Catherine SinclairHoliday HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'I agreed pretty well with all you said about George Eliot […]'Robert Louis Stevenson Catherine Spence Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan...Frances Burney Catherine Talbot 
1800-1849‘...Other tales, in which beasts and birds compose the Dramatis Personae, are to be considered as burlesque satires, intended to make human actions and passions ridicul...Hartley Coleridge Catherine Ann Turner DorsetThe Peacock ‘at Home’: A sequel to the Butterfly's...Print: Book
1800-1849'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestic...Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine Anne DorsetPeacock "at home", ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter]

'I have got ''Mr Hogarth's Will'', and find it too dull, so we have only Hepworth Dixon's ''America'' and old Jesse's ''George III.'', which is comfor...		Emma Darwin Catherine Helen SpenceMr Hogarth's WillPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850: 'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [...] as one of the most witty of our wits in verse, ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Catherine Maria FanshawepoemsManuscript: Unknown, copied
1800-1849In introductory note to Felicia Hemans, "The American Forest-Girl": 'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read Catherine Maria Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie" [...] a novel published in 1827...Felicia Hemans Catherine Maria SedgwickHope LesliePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844: 'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. & see in it an address to yourself. The subscripti...Elizabeth Barrett Catherine Smith PyerWild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Obj...Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than ...Alfred Tennyson Catullus  Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than ...Miss Ritchie Catullus  Print: Book
1900-1945'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a boo...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonHistory of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonThe History of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere...Rosamond Lehmann Cecil Day Lewis Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
1. In the absence of the Secretary the minutes of the last meeting wer...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Cecil Day Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park. Jan 27th 1942 J. Knox Taylor in the Chair.
[...]
5. The subject was a provocative one “Modern Poetry” & we...		[a member of the XII Book Club – one of Isabel Taylor, Roger Moore, Margaret Dilks, A. G. Joselin, or F. E. Pollard] Cecil Day Lewis[unknown]Print: Book


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