√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'The others slept while I wrote and read again with pleasure and admiration "Sinister Street, [Vol] II". A glorious promise if only that youth is not murdered in the Aege... Ronald Storrs Compton Mackenzie Sinister Street, vol. 2 Print : Book1900-1945 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the beginning & the end are the best.'
Arnold Bennett Compton McKenzie Sinister Street Print : Book1800-1849 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have ... Jane Baillie Welsh Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases Memorial de Sainte Helene Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] Do you know [...] the story of the
Duchesse de C. ... Elizabeth Barrett Comtesse de Genlis Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education Print : Book1700-1799 Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving troubl... Catherine Talbot Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips Print : BookEvidence of engagement with the text: (1) occasional marginal notes; (2) marginal symbols throughout the text, crosses (ex. pp. 1,5,12), underlines (pp. 16, 520-1), score... Jo. Halkerston Conradus Lagus Methodica iuris traditio, seu ratio compendiaria, ... Print : Book1900-1945 'Answer to prayer: [May] came in safe and early Read Fanny Burney (Court of George III)' Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance Hill Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte Print : Book1900-1945 'Read Miss Burney George III illness + recovery' Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance Hill Fanny Burney at the Court of Queen Charlotte Print : Book1900-1945 '[Books read] June [1914]. Life's Trivial Round Harriet Bickersteth Cook Constance Lytton Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences Print : Book1850-1899 'Lunched at Troyes, reached Bale at 7.30. Hotel Euler. Read Stevenson's "Men and Books" and Miss Warlson's [sic] "Horace Chase".'
Gertrude Bell Constance Fenimore Woolson Horace Chase Print : Book1700-1799 'Whether it was owing to her own Desire, or the Envy of those who survived her, I know not; but of her various and beautiful Writings, except one poem of her's in Mrs [it... Laetitia Van Lewen Constantia Grierson [poems] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Constantin Volney Les ruines Print : Book1800-1849 Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
Wordsworth Family Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of May Fair or Arlington -'
[letter to Charles Ollier] Mary Shelley Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby Contrast, The Print : Book1800-1849 'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I mentioned to Lord Normanby, that it was the book selecte... Sydney Smith Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby Matilda Print : Book1700-1799 To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was not tired with its length because the chief of its c... Elizabeth Smith Conyeds Middleton History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I do not at all admire this letter. Indeed Middleton ... Thomas Babington Macaulay Conyers Middleton Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Chr... Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Conyers Middleton Life of Cicero Print : Book1700-1799 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned for the fame of Cicero; and that for fame and self-e... Samuel Richardson Conyers Middleton History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero Print : Book1850-1899 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' George Eliot [pseud] Conyers Middleton Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact... Print : Book
