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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in "Menagiana," I think on the word corps'.Samuel Johnson Monsieur MenageMenagiana Ou Les Bons MotsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Nov. 3rd. [...] After dinner [...] begin Wieland's novel of Menander & Glycera.' [reading/translation of this text also recorded in journal entries for 4, 5,...Claire Clairmont Christoph Martin WielandMenander und GlycerionPrint: Book
1850-189923 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges.Henry James Paul BourgetMensongesPrint: Book
1900-1945Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout.Vernon Lee James Mark BaldwinMental Development in the Child and the Race: Meth...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From Mental improvement Vol 1st ... Of artificial coral [...Priscilla WakefieldMental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of...Print: Book
1900-1945'19th February, Saturday. The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had the afternoon to myself. I luncheoned with Uhlig and...Gerald Moore menu in FrenchPrint: menu
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the A...John Buckley and Harry CastieauWilliam ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following afternoon we began "The Merchant of Venice". There was on...Edmund Gosse William ShakespeareMerchant of VenicePrint: Book
1900-1945

'I was laid up directly on arriving here, and this is the explanation of the delay in thanking you for the precious copy of the book. Pray convey to your brother my gr...

Joseph Conrad David Bone Merchantmen-at-Arms:The British Merchants' Service...Print: Book
1900-1945'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ...James Hanley n/aMercure de FrancePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinion in words that g...Joseph Conrad Mercure de France Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .'Arnold Bennett J.B. PriestleyMercury, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Pray forgive me keeping your article on Mérimée so long. I read it as soon as it arrived — and then re-read it yesterday. It is one of the best pieces by you I've read, ...Joseph Conrad Gérard Jean-AubryMériméeManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'Samuel Pepys William LillyMerlini Anglici EphemerisPrint: Book, almanac
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When, a year later, a senior apprentice -a Clarion Scout -gave me a copy of the penny edition of Blatchford's "Merrie England" of which he had sold a large quantity "rou...Thomas A. Jackson Robert BlatchfordMerrie EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"By the age of fifteen ... [Alice Foley] was 'enthusiastically imbibing socialist doctrines arising out of family readings and discussion of the weekly Clarion and Robert...family of Alice Foley Merrry EnglandPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Thank God for Shakespeare at any rate. Baron Lefroy can...John Mitchel William ShakespeareMerry Wives of WindsorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - & the merry Wives of Windsor'Mary Shelley William ShakespeareMerry Wives of Windsor, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Janie [Jane-Simone Bussy]: when I was in the dismal dro...Virginia Woolf Colette Mes ApprentisagesPrint: Book


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