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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?Another book is Jowett?s life; wh. I have read with a good deal of interest. It is too long & too idolatrous; but seems to give one on the whole a good account of the ma...Leslie Stephen Benjamin JowettLife and Letters of Benjamin JowettPrint: Book
1900-1945'Incidentally I have read the enchanting volume of Page's letters to President Wilson which Aunt Maisie [Stanley] angelically sent me. Is not he the best letter writer th...Gertrude Bell Burton Jesse HendrickLife and Letters of W. H. PagePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with Hayley for expiating so minutely on Cowper?s praise...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] William HayleyLife and letters of William CowperPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 June 1841: 'I have been reading Blanchard's life of poor L.E.L. [...] The book is to me deeply affecting. She was a fine...Mary Russell Mitford Samuel Laman BlanchardLife and Literary Remains of L.E.L.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel Laman BlanchardLife and Literary Remains of L.E.L.Print: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin Lafcadio HearnLife and LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799'I censured some ludicrous fantastick dialogues between two coach horses and other such stuff, which Baretti had lately published. He joined with me and said, "Nothing od...Samuel Johnson Laurence SterneLife and Opinions of Tristam ShandyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tristram Shandy.'Mary Shelley Laurence SterneLife and Opinions of Tristram ShandyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two girls burnt together in ball dress.'John Ruskin Blanche RooseveltLife and Reminiscences of Gustave DorePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Astronomy - Finish Robinson Crusoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeLife and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson...Print: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James PartonLife and Times of Aaron Burr, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Goldsmith's life, and (long ago) with the Lives of the S...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLife and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - pl...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard ...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of GoethePrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of Goethe, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Frederick William FarrarLife and Works of St PaulPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry on the Life and writings (including memoirs) of the Princess Dashkoff, published 1840: 'The whole work -- of which I saw only the first part, which comes down ...Mary Berry Princess DashkoffLife and WritingsPrint: Book


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