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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am reading Lowell's Essay on Wordsworth after Shairp and he suits me much better. He is rather caustic and amusing, and his writing is as neat as if it was French, als...Emma Darwin James Russell LowellLiterary EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from...John Clare [n/a]Literary GazettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensiv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Roger Moore Roger MooreLiterary Gleanings [an essay on the Thames in Lite...Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Down town with Dad and Mum in morning. Gally and Leon in for tea and dinner. Dad read "Literary Lapses" after dinner — very bon! Bed early.'Cuthbert George Knocker Stephen LeacockLiterary LapsesPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Down town with Dad and Mum in morning. Gally and Leon in for tea and dinner. Dad read "Literary Lapses" after dinner — very bon! Bed early.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Stephen LeacockLiterary LapsesPrint: BookUnknown
1700-1799'Brought vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library [...] The author says Andrew Mackay [...] wrote the articles [...] in...Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'"The Memoirs of Living Authors" appears to be quite a catch-penny job. The author gives a list of their works & sometimes his opinion on them. A book of this kind is ver...Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Memoirs of Living Authors".'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1700-1799'Brought Vol 2nd "Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain" from the Surry Street Library. It is a book on very great call.'Joseph Hunter David RiversLiterary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britai...Print: Book
1900-1945(1) 'The book you refer to is "How to Form a Literary Taste" by Arnold Bennett: the edition is pretty but the book is not of any value. The very title — as if you set o...Clive Staples Lewis Arnold BennettLiterary Taste: How to Form It with Detailed Instr...Print: Book
1900-1945'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the prose & poetical works of Matthew Arnold were given by ...Frederick J. Edminson Matthew ArnoldLiterature and DogmaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night."Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldLiterature and Dogma (possibly)Manuscript: proofs of article
1800-1849'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collateral information, and at any rate that is amusing.'Eleanor Anne Porden SismondiLiterature du Midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...George Eliot [pseud] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Jean Charles de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: Book
1850-1899'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Little ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B...William Henry Davies unknownLittle Billie's ButtonPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ... I formed an early acquaintance with Dickens, weepi...Frances Stevenson Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem...William Gallacher Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book


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