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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945 A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought that I could never tolerate another war book, but this o...Arnold Bennett Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of an Infantry OfficerPrint: Book
1850-1899[Letter]

'You were quite right in telling me I should like Bunsen if I persevered. [...] It is consoling to read such an intensely happy life as his was from b...		Emma Darwin Frances, Baroness BunsenMemoirs of Baron BunsenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Draw and read Bryan Perdue'Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novelPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Bryan Perdue - write - not well in the evening begin Sir C. Grandison'.Mary Godwin Thomas HolcroftMemoirs of Bryan Perdue: a novelPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...Lord Eliot Daniel DefoeMemoirs of Captain George CarletonPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson having asked for details about Lord Peterborough] "But, (said his Lordship [Lord Eliot,) the best account of Lord Peterborough that I have happened to meet wit...Samuel Johnson Daniel DefoeMemoirs of Captain George CarletonPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read ... [George Carleton, Memoirs] in April [1809] ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge George CarletonMemoirs of Captain George Carleton, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney Anne MathewsMemoirs of Charles Mathews, comedianPrint: Book
1800-1849'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Si...William Wordsworth HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read M...Wordsworth FamilyLucy HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lu...Mary Berry Lucy HutchinsonMemoirs of Colonel HutchinsonPrint: Book
1850-189917 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. he had not re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Frances Burney D'ArblayMemoirs of Dr BurneyPrint: Book
1800-184917 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not re...Charlotte Bertie Frances Burney D'ArblayMemoirs of Dr BurneyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Ion - Ludlow's memoirs. &c - The Rest of May a blank except that I read La Gerusalemme Liberata'Mary Shelley E. LudlowMemoirs of E. Ludlow Esq.; Lieutenant-General of t...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. She thinks the death of Augustus the end of the stor...Mrs Robinson Mary HaysMemoirs of Emma CourtneyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick PerthesMemoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religiou...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Monday, 15 June 1829: 'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Hall brought the author to breakfast with [me] in Edin...Walter Scott General MillerMemoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the R...Print: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart George Anne BellamyMemoirs of George Anne BellamyPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity in the USA: "The greatest pleasure I ever derived, ...George Gordon Lord Byron George Frederick CookeMemoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the The...Print: Book
1800-1849'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud'Thomas Jefferson Hogg John Black (trans.)Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramati...Print: Book


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