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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem]Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...'Unknown
1800-1849'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker]Carey/Maingay groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn A Cornelian Heart Which Was BrokenPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [minor differences from the original]Edward or George Carey George Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love"Unknown
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Voltaire [pseud.]TancredPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1900-1945'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occured the phrase "some o...Alfred Tennyson account of Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'On Dec. 15th [1887] "Owd Roa" was finished for press. My father's note on the poem is: "I read in one of the daily papers of a child saved by a black retriever from a bu...Alfred Tennyson newspaper report on rescue of child by dogPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer." 'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great pa...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.Katherine Mansfield [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our...James Boswell Richard AllestreeGovernment of the Tongue, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson Book of Common PrayerPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Friday, June 11, we talked at breakfast, of forms of prayer. JOHNSON. "I know of no good prayers but those in the 'Book of Common Prayer'". DR. ADAMS, (in a very earn...Samuel Johnson [various books of prayer]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Caterina to Camoens" [...] It must have been painful for...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: Book
1850-1899'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occup...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss FreerAnne of AustriaPrint: Book
1850-1899'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occup...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss FreerHenri IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'On her return to London [from Canford, after Christmas 1879] Lady Charlotte, having a very bad cold, hardly left the house for nearly a month. During this time her occup...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Miss FreerJeanne d'AlbretPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Stefan ZeromskiPopiolyPrint: Book


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