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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev...Margaret Oliphant John MorleyLife of George EliotPrint: Book
1850-1899'His Majesty, once more disobeying the Dook's orders, had granted to some creature an Irish peerage. 'I observe' wrote Arthur (I quote from memory), that your Majesty has...Robert Louis Stevenson Percy Hetherington FitzgeraldLife of George IVPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have done it I shall write to Marian - I don't see the self...Bessie Raynor Parkes George Henry LewesLife of GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].Claire Clairmont unknownLife of GoethePrint: Book
1850-1899'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo...Leslie Stephen Edmund GosseLife of GrayPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", etc., the Lives of Haydn and Mozart, and the brochure...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri BeyleLife of HaydnPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868: 'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long time ago reading Bowden's Life of him, and either the ...Benjamin Jowett BowdenLife of HildebrandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of Curran.'John Buckley Castieau W.H. CurranLife of J.P. CurranPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake off a blackness, a blankness. Now (10 to 1) after w...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of James BoswellPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish BelshamLife of James IIPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay Ernest RenanLife of JesusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Neander's life of Christ. There is much that seems to me rather mystical & very German, obscure at times, & it is obviously very ill-translated, ...G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Augustus NeanderLife of Jesus ChristPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud.] David Friedrich StraussLife of Jesus [second version]Print: Book
1900-1945"By May 1909 ... [imprisoned suffragette] Mrs Reonold [had been] 'especially cheered and encouraged' by reading a life of Joan of Arc."Mrs Reonold Life of Joan of ArcPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Helen Rawlings Anatole FranceLife of Joan of Arc, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Extract from the Life of John Evelyn Esq published by (and edited) William Bray Esq., Fellow a...William Bray (ed.)Life of John EvelynPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton August 9 1700', beginning, 'The confirmation of your he...C.M.G. [anon] William BrayLife of John EvelynPrint: Book
1900-1945'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for do...Wilfred Owen Sidney ColvinLife Of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Owen turned to his third main interest, the earth sciences, doing his earnest but unscholarly best to tackle the Victorian debate between science and religion. He was so...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Reading W.M. Rossetti's biography [of Keats] in 1912, he was overcome by its account of Keats's death: "Rossetti guided my groping hand right into the wound, and I touch...Wilfred Owen William Michael RossettiLife of John KeatsPrint: Book


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