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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899"S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell."Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak .....Henry James Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveNouveaux lundisPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea...Mary Augusta ward Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print: Book
1850-1899'I have bought Sainte-Beuve's Chateaubriand and am immensely delighted with the critic.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveChateaubriand et son groupe litteraire sous l'Empi...Print: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles Bowker AshAdbaston: or Days of YouthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownWieland; or, the transformationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, The Secret Witness
1900-1945'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and biographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century...John Buchan Charles C. F. Greville?The Greville MemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 12 April 1850:

'The perusal of Southey's Life has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with...		Charlotte Brontë Charles Cuthbert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1700-1799'From the vocabularies given in Le Maire's voyage (see Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, tom. i. p. 410) it appears clearly that the languages given there as...Joseph Banks Charles de BrosseHistoire des Navigations aux Terres AustralesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end italics] [sic] -- so clever they are! Charles de Remu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles de Remusat'French Essays on Literature'Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shepherdess aloud'Mary Shelley Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de MontesquieuLettres persanesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Howard Smith Charles E. KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time read and approved

2 Mrs T C Elli...

Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[essay on a Swiss holiday]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the...		Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[An essay on ghosts with reference to the Psychica...Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 73 Northcourt Avenue
Friday 28th March 1930
1. Minutes of last meeting were approved.
[...]
6. A warm message of sympathy to be s...		Charles E. Stansfield Charles E. Stansfield[Films and their effect on language]Manuscript: Unknown


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