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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Laura was lucky enough to be given a bound volume of "Good Words" - or was it "Home Words"? - in which the Queen's own journal, "Leaves From Her Majesty's Life in the Hi...Flora Thompson Queen Victoria Leaves from Her Majesty's Life in the HighlandsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed out up to Magnus Simpson, came in, took out Leaves o...Robert Louis Stevenson Walt WhitmanLeaves of GrassPrint: Book
1850-1899"Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sundays as it wasn't a novel!'"Harriet Shaw Weaver Walt WhitmanLeaves of GrassPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Paul (pseud.)Leben des Quintus FixleinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterLeben FibelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Even eight-year-old Willy [Godwin] went once in a while to hear his Papa [William Godwin]'s friend [S. T. Coleridge] speak [in London Philosophical Society lectures, 18 ...William Godwin jr variouslecture on 'The Influence of Government on the Cha...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.' John Cole Dr Sanfordlecture on Good FridayUnknown
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.'Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsLecture on Modern HistoryUnknown
1900-1945Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] last Tuesday, that is; [he] read us his L[eslie]. S[tep...Desmond MacCarthy Desmond MacCarthylecture on Sir Leslie StephenUnknown
1800-1849'very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me increased admiration, sympathy & veneration. I make...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningLecture on the Present AgePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at t...Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace ThackerayLecturesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Joshua ReynoldsLecturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'Thomas Green John HeyLectures in divinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus, incipit I:C:T:U:S. which is an Abbreviation though... Lectures of MoralityPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end italics] which I have been reading, interest and pl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They certainly are dogmatical. They are disfigured by exagg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 July 1853:

'Mr Ruskin's beautiful book reached me safely this morning; its arrival was a pleasant surprise, for I was ...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with g...Elizabeth Smith Thomas SeckerLectures on CatechismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading hi...Emily De Quincey Henry Hope ReedLectures on English Literature from Chaucer to Ten...Print: Book
1850-1899'Did you ever happen to come across Professor Reed of Philadelphia. I think he was drowned in returning to America along with his sister-in-law. We have been reading hi...Emily De Quincey Henry Hope ReedLectures on History and Tragic Poetry as Illustrat...Print: Book


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