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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the play. [The Sane Star]... Play returned herewith. A.B.'Arnold Bennett E.V. LucasThe Sane StarManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibility of getting cheap copies of The Dynasts. 1. Pianof...Henry Marriage Wallis E.V. LucasJoints in the ArmourPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'John Ruskin E.V. RippingilleArtist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have tasted, sipped, and consumed the delectable nectar prepared surely with the milk of human kindness and spiced with your wit. [...]; This is delightful [...].' He...Joseph Conrad E.[Edward] V. [Verrall] LucasOver Bemerton's: An Easy-going Chronicle Print: Book
1900-1945'I only secured lately not so much the leisure as the proper freedom of mind, to read through and get on terms with your novel.[...] The book is captivatng enough in all ...Joseph Conrad E.[Elliot] L. [Lovegood] Grant WilsonThe MainlandPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Earl of CromerModern EgyptPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Eaton BarrettThe HeroinePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Eaton Stannard BarrettSix Weeks at Long'sPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'Jane Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of CherubinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me exceedingly.'James Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of CherubinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is a delightful burlesque, particularly on the Radclif...Jane Austen Eaton Stannard BarrettThe Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third vo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Work'd all day. In the evening was visited by Wm Camm and Geo Seston to the latter of whom I lent Watts "Improvement of the Mind". Read part of "Corn Law Rhymes" to my f...Joseph Jenkinson Ebeneezer ElliotCorn Law RhymesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgotten authors of the nineteenth century - Sir Henry T...John Betjeman Ebeneezer Elliott Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845: 'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you mention -- & I always estimated him highly as a true poet...Elizabeth Barrett Ebenezer ElliottpoemsUnknown
1800-1849'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi...Thomas Carter Ebenezer HendersonIceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Isl...Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Schrader's German Mythology'George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader[German Mythology]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got rather chummy with Phillpotts & he is a grand chap,...Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsLying ProphetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.' Arnold Bennett Eden PhillpottsChildren of the MistPrint: Book


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