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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an odd thing') from chapter 13 of Ernest Hemingway, For ...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945'dear hemingway, (i have cut off the top of thumb with a sickle and so cannot put down the capital stop) thank you very much for the book on bull rings i have bee...Ford Madox Ford Ernest HemingwayDeath in the AfternoonPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." ' Ernest Raymond[various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor...Rose Macaulay Ernest RenanLife of JesusPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Ernest Renan?tudes d?histoire religieusePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanHistoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanAverroes et l'AverroismePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Childhood [Cahiers de Jeunesse, 1906]: O my word it ...Virginia Stephen Ernest RenanCahiers de JeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers gazed, and I felt like -- who's the man in the bi...Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [garage], & then home, & read St Paul & the papers [....Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his copy of Vigny's "Chatterton" he marked the sentence, "En toi la reverie continuelle a tue l'action", and in Renan he marked a comment that the Celts knew how to p...Wilfred Owen Ernest RenanSouvenirs d'enfance et de jeunessePrint: Book
1850-1899'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I was closing the book: "Graces a Dieu pour son ineff...John Ruskin Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945

'[...]the Old Testament (Psalms almost by heart] and Renan's "Histoire du Peuple d'Israel" was the sum of my knowledge of Jewry until the year 1917, an ignorance which...

Ronald Storrs Ernest RenanHistoire du Peuple d'IsraelPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading the Renan book and am fascinated with it. It is really a beautiful book. I daresay I shall finish it before I get to London and will post it back to you. Yo...Gertrude Bell Ernest RenanunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Perfectly delicious bright warm day. Sat on deck in a hot sun, pitching our tents near the L[amont]s with whom we are making friends. Began Renan's "History of the Jews"...Gertrude Bell Ernest RenanHistoire du peuple d'Israël Print: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of last meeting were read'.Ernest Unwin Ernest Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Minutes of last meeting were read'Ernest Unwin Ernest Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Minutes of last meeting read & signed'Ernest Unwin Ernest Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'Mins of last meeting read & signed'Ernest Unwin Ernest Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910: 'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was going to tell you something special in the next, and now...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest B. HavellIndian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanat...Print: Book


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