√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Wiliam Charles Macready, Journal, 6 August 1841:
'Finished the play of Plighted Troth -- a play written in a quaint style, but possessing the rare
qualities of inten... William Charles Macready Charles F. Darley Plighted Troth Unknown 1900-1945 Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' to The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe... Edward Morgan Forster Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' Print : Book1850-1899 'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.' Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Grant Robertson Kurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of... Print : Book1850-1899 'My dear Charlie, I’m a rogue and should have written to you months ago; but I have been both busy and worried. As to your paper, no, it won’t do: you ask an opinion, and... Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson Unknown 1850-1899 'Let me say that I have read several of your letters published in the Courant , and found them competently done.' Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Gray Robertson [See below, Additional Comments.] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Ps. 116 v. precious Albert Ruskin Cook Charles Haddon Spurgeon ?Our Own Hymnbook: A Collection of Psalms and Hymn... Print : BookManuscript : Telegraph cable1900-1945 'Read three of Spurgeon's sermons on the great
themes of the day.' Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Charles Haddon Spurgeon [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Thank you for sending me your novel. I think that there is much good writing, and that you have a strong visual sense, but I do get tired of the perpetual pillow fights.... Edith Sitwell Charles Henri Ford ( with Parker Tyler) The Young and the Evil Print : Book1850-1899 'None of the periodicals shown there are alive today. There was "Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday", my favourite comic. When Father had a spot of overtime in, he used to buy a ... Joseph Stamper Charles Henry Ross Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi... Thomas Carlyle Charles Hughes Terot Poems Manuscript : Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35. Charles I. Evans Charles I. Evans [An introduction to the topic of ‘Bees in Music an... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 15. I. 35. Charles I. Evans Charles I. Evans [A paper on Maurice Maeterlinck, Tickner Edwardes,... Unknown 1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles James Blomfield A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese Print : Book1700-1799 Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 17 May 1799: 'I was much entertained by some letters which [Uvedale] Price showed me from Sr George Beaumont, Fox, and Knight, containing cri... Mary Berry Charles James Fox letter to Uvedale Price on series of plays Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 2 June 1808: 'I began reading aloud Mr. Fox's historical work, in the beautiful large-paper copy which Robert Ferguson has given me.' Mary Berry Charles James Fox Historical Work Print : Book1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 3 June 1808: 'I continued reading Fox's work. It is very well to read it once out; but it suggests so much thought, and so many new views of things,... Mary Berry Charles James Fox Historical Work Print : BookMS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am glad he liked shooting as much as I do." George Otto Trevelyan Charles James Fox Memorials and correspondence of Charles James Fox Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must try to get thro' the thorns & read him. I
tried on... Elizabeth Barrett Charles James Lever Charles O'Malley Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844:
'I [italics]cannot read[end italics] Lever, ... honestly & without affectation, I [italics]cannot[end
it... Elizabeth Barrett Charles James Lever Harry Lorrequer Print : Book1800-1849 [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 ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles James Fox, Lord Holland A history of the early part of the reign of James ... Print : Book
