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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (enclosed in letter from William) about his work on Gau...Henry James comments on Henry James's April 1873 North America...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph on Miss Lowe's marriage, at Venice, and have stupidl...Henry James wedding announcementPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'My excellent mother had a fair education - at all events she could read and write fairly well - and she was often asked to read and write letters for neighbours who coul...Sarah Tinsley [letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [Roman history]Print: Book
1700-1799'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had not a Notion it was worth while'.Hester Lynch Thrale [French Memoirs]Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia [English history]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Devices - compiled in the Reign of Elizabethe' [the (un...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her wh...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I co...Harriet Martineau Old and New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'I spent the morning in the Public Library and am reading some lovely books. I read all afternoon and tried to think up games for our next Xmas party. It's as well to b...Hilary Spalding [books on party games]Print: Book
1700-1799'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion given of the French manner tho' written in the middle re...Samuel Richardson The History of ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read all afternoon and evening, to parent's [sic] disgust but my delight. Pub. Lib. books.'Hilary Spalding [books]Print: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt Historical educatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even, read some "Universal Magazines".'Thomas Turner Universal Magazine of Knowledge and PleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the "London Magazine" for July, in which I find a great many excellent pieces, more than I ever remember to have seen in any one magazine. Perha...Thomas Turner The London magazine; or, gentleman's monthly intel...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..."Henry James newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..."Henry James PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other night to American literati to thank them for praying...Henry James The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c...Rudolph Lehmann ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists]Print: Book


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