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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole Malvina [pseud.][poetry]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ...R.E. Prothero OvidTristia IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to read the results of the Coronation procession in London...a young couple [n/a][newspaper?]Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Spinster's Sweet-ArtsUnknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaud (extracts)Unknown
1850-1899'On one of these June mornings [in 1892], Miss L----, who was a stranger to us, but whose brother we had known for some time, called upon us. My father took her over the ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonEnoch Arden (extracts)Unknown
1800-1849'On Parting' 'The kiss, dear maid! Thy lip has left, /...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'On Parting'Unknown
1800-1849'On presenting ourselves at a little shop in the Market Place, a popular circulating library, the old spectacle-nosed keeper told us, that his invariable rule was, before...Christopher Thomson Thomas SkinnerSplendid miseryPrint: Book
1900-1945'On reading an article by Lord (then Mr) Keynes in The Times on working-class saving, I wrote to him about our survey. As well as a letter of encouragement, he sent me a...John Keynesarticle in The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'On reading the subjoined chapters on the Turkish Bath, in Mr Urquhart's "Pillars of Hercules", I was electrified; and resolved, if possible, to add that institution to...Dr Richard Barter David UrquhartThe Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travelPrint: Book
1900-1945'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a month.' Arnold Bennett  Print: Advertisement
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: page proofs for American edition
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: page proofs for English edition
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Mo...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier'...Print: Book
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Dr Musgrave Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 25, I dined with him at Sir Joshua Reynolds's, with the learned Dr. Musgrave, Counsellor Leland of Ireland, son to the historian, Mrs. Cholmondeley, a...Samuel Johnson Richard TickellProject, ThePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...James Boswell London Chronicle Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...Mrs Williams [n/a]London Chronicle Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the...Samuel Johnson Oliver Goldsmith[apology for beating a bookseller]Unknown
1700-1799'On Saturday, April 4, I drank tea with Johnson at Dr. Taylor's, where he had dined. He entertained us with an account of a tragedy written by a Dr. Kennedy (not the Lisb...Mr Fitzherbert Dr Kennedy[a tragedy]Manuscript: Unknown


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