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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommended by doctors, and stay at Wynberg] a move to Ceres ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber StanleyJewish ChurchPrint: Book
1900-1945'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' "Jewish Problem", and by making a conscious effort t...Geoffrey Gorer Lewis GoldingsJewish ProblemPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy". Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a ...Clive Staples Lewis Algernon BlackwoodJimbo, a FantasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'By the way! 'Jimmy & the Desperate Woman' is fucking good! 'After he had given his lecture (it was on Men in Books and Men in Life: naturally men in books came first)......Philip Larkin D. H. LawrenceJimmy and The Desperate Woman, in The Woman Who Ro...Print: Book
1900-1945Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": " [Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alcott after having picked up at a seaside bookshop ...Melvyn Bragg Louisa May AlcottJo's BoysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39 Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from R. H....		Mary Pollard H. G. WellsJoan and PeterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 17.1.39
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
3. A letter from ...		Mary Pollard H. G. WellsJoan and PeterPrint: Book
1900-1945I am in the middle of a splendid and much-talked- about book “Joan & Peter” by H.G. Wells, and in it I find a brief description of “Pounce” which was played in the b...Arthur Morris Herbert George WellsJoan and PeterPrint: Book
1700-1799'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am ...William Wordsworth Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849" ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841: 'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end italics] read "Gaston de Blondeville" [...] And I...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas J. SerleJoan of ArcPrint: Book
1900-1945'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her in her Place" which latter process involved a gener...Katherine Evans Thomas de QuinceyJoan of ArcPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, an epic poemPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have not yet finished "Joan of Arc". Near 500 lines at the beginning of the 2d book were supplied by S.T. Coleridge. These appear to me to be the worst I have ever rea...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'[...] Gaze on - then heart-sick [...] It is in the first edition of this poem, that I am reading, which Southey composed in 6 weeks & corrected it, while it was proceedi...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799'took "Joan of Arc" to the library. I think the 4 first books, are much superior to any which follow, if we except the 9th [in margin: & the vision of the Maid] but even ...Joseph Hunter Robert SoutheyJoan of Arc, An Epic PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes ScapulaJoan. Scapulae Lexicon Graeco-LatinumPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceJocaste et le Chat MaigrePrint: Book
1850-1899'I send back the MS tonight.The chapters are all as they should be. The last line excellent. Good luck to the book.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJocelynManuscript: Unknown, probably a typed MS
1850-1899'And the merit of the book ["Jocelyn"], (apart from distinguished literary expression) is just in this: You have given the exact measure of your characters in a language ...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyJocelynManuscript: Unknown


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