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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...Edmund Burke Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation...James Boswell Herbert CroftLife of YoungPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of [?Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage, to which Forster refers as 'Good tempered acco...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonLife of [Richard] SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Boswell's "Life of Johnson;...Mountstuart Elphinstone [James] BoswellLife of [Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'He first read Twain in London in the late eighties. "Innocents Abroad"(1869) was all the rage. But his description of life in America-some of his short stories as well...Joseph Conrad Mark TwainLife on the MississippiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas FullerLife Out of DeathPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816): 'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interesting [...] I send you a book; pray read it -- "Lady C...Lady Caroline Lamb ?Thomas ?HolcroftLife [?of Thomas Holcroft]Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Eleanor SmithLife's a CircusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Life's Handicap'Sarah Good Rudyard KiplingLife's HandicapPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] June [1914]. Life's Trivial Round
White Linen Nurse. Most bits rubbish
A passage perilous
Prisons & prisoners (suffragists)'		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyLife's Trivial RoundPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual tre...S.P. Oliver Andrew LangLife, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcot...Print: Book
1850-1899'We have also begun Lyell['s ''Life'']. The scrap of autobiography is pleasant.'Emma Darwin Charles, Sir LyellLife, Letters and JournalsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:

'I despatch to-day a box of return books [loaned by Williams]: among them will be found two or three of th...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas MooreLife, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (vols 1 a...Print: Book
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace LightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, "Light and Dark", to which I had contributed. Began... [n/a]Light and DarkPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your prose with its quiet,flowing felicity of phrase and wha...Joseph Conrad Edward ThomasLight and TwilightPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stansfield. The comparison suggested by Fielding in his b...Blanche Ridges Edwin ArnoldLight of AsiaPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Rudyard KiplingLight that Failed, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Ian HayLighter Side of School Life, ThePrint: Book


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