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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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] Voltaire's "Louis XIV", in ...Mountstuart Elphinstone VoltaireLouis XIVPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's Letters and since then read Anquetil's "Louis XIV Sa Cour et le Regent" - A most admirably entertaining work in four moderate litt...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, Sa Cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished all dear old Sevigne's letters, and since then read Anquetils' "Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Regent". - a most admirably entertaining work, in four moderate...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Pierre AnquetilLouis XIV, sa cour et le RegentPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 17 August 1832: 'I enjoy my life here more than I can say. My walks before breakfast, a new work, "Louis X...Harriet Countess Granville Louis XVIIIPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge VossLouisaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Left at 10.40 Frontier 12.15, lunch Belfort 12.40 where I got "Lourdes" and read it with wild interest all the rest of the way. Tea at Nancy. Reims 7.30.' Gertrude Bell unknown unknownLourdes [...]Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Love'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisLovePrint: Book
1600-1699'This evening, being in an humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old paper; among others, a Romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheat...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysLove a CheateManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes...Samuel Pepys [Thomas] [Southland]Love a la modePrint: Book
1900-1945'In odd moments last week I read an excellent novel by — you'd never guess — Bernard Shaw. It is called "Love among the Artists" and is published in Constable's shillin...Clive Staples Lewis George Bernard ShawLove among the Artists: A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday April 13th. [...] Read Farquhar's Love & a Bottle.' Claire Clairmont George FarquharLove and a BottlePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Miss Cole Thomas Love PeacockLove and AgePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.

  Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved
[...]

6. V....

Elizabeth T. Alexander Jane AustenLove and FriendshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read with great pleasure the whole of the History of Poo...William Upcott James HackmanLove and MadnessPrint: Book
1700-1799'He disapproved much of mingling real facts with fiction. On this account he censured a book entitled "Love and Madness"'. Samuel Johnson Love and MadnessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Herbert CroftLove and Madness. A story too true. In a series of...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening I read the whole of "Love and Madness"- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a view to make myself more acquainted with the fate of...William Upcott James HackmanLove and Madness; a Story Too True in a Series of....Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the vol. Chaffery is immense. The thing as a whole remarkable in its effects.' Hence follow five more lines of praise. Joseph Conrad H.G. Wells Love and Mr LewishamPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Lord Snowdon': '"...and so he went on expatiating upon his honour and his feelings, his conviction ...Theodore HookLove and PridePrint: Book
'Meeting held at “Frensham” 8th July 1944
    Howard R. Smith in the chair.

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7. “Love Came In” by Beatrice Saxon...		Francis E. Pollard Beatrice Saxon-SnellLove Came InPrint: Book


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