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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Your opening pages [of "Turgenev: A Study"] are excellent , excellent! I was much delighted with your masterly thrusts to all that thick headed crowd. As to the rest of ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTurgenev: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettTruth's Welcome HomePrint: proof
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettA Week in ParisManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'I didn't thank you for the book ["Papa's War and Other Satires" ] by letter because I knew I was coming to town at once. You know my opinion of all the pieces composing ...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettPapa's War and Other SatiresPrint: Book
1900-1945'I must thank you for the volume which has just arrived.[...]. What I have felt and thought is more suitable for talk, warm and many coloured than for the cold blue tint...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettFriday Nights: Literary Criticism and Appreciatio...Print: Book
1600-1699'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was readinge in his booke, and in consideracion of the man...Roger Lowe Edward GeeA Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as r...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame is the motive, it is the reward, of our labours: nor...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonVindicationPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go...Catherine McMullen Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson Edward Gibbon[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman ...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,...George Gordon Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E...Print: Book
1800-1849In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 JanuaryAnne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703...Anne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ...Wil John Edwards Edward Gibbonpresumably Decline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Edward Gibbon Print: Book
1800-1849'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentat...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not ind...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [q...Benjamin Newton Edward GibbonMiscellaneous works...with memoirs of his lifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book


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