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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and general horrors. I sat next to a Mr Amiel - prounounce...Mr Amiel Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".'Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the...Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in general good; but that the Journal throughout was too morb...Alfred Tennyson AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1800-1849'From the caverns dark recesses...' 'A natural Aeolian Harp discovered in one of the caves in Germany - Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'Bonn July 10th 1822. The [Harper?] crossed himself... adapted a popular Rhinish air... Dr Beattie's Tour in 1822'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'The Bugle song...' 'Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany... in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849'Lake of Constance "What beauty flashes from the brow of night, ..." Beattie's Tour'Bowly groupWilliam BeattieJournal of A Residence in Germany...in 1822, 1825Unknown
1800-1849[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'George Crabbe Maria GrahamJournal of A Residence in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on William Turner, Journal of a Tour in the Levant (and ...George Gordon Lord Byron William TurnerJournal of a Tour in the LevantPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - 'Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Hester Lynch Thrale James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Anna Grosvenor James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel John...Print: 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 William Edward ParryJournal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passa...Print: Book
1900-1945'Although Larkin had first read them [Auden and Isherwood] at KHS [his school], it wasn't until he reached Oxford that he began fully to appreciate their irony and ebulli...Philip Larkin Wystan Hugh AudenJournal of an Airman, ThePrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our experience = it is/ sorrow which teaches us to feel pro...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.'Mary Godwin Lord MacartneyJournal of an Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] bouleversant [italics] as to convert me to the Friends. Ca...Antonia White John WoolmanJournal of John Woolman Print: Book
1800-1849John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814: 'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the Seaman" [...] Lord Byron sent me word this mornin...George Gordon Lord Byron EagleJournal of Penrose, the SeamanManuscript: Unknown


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