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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.George Eliot [pseud] Frances Anne KembleRecords of a GirlhoodPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me to be a very clever & indeed surprising production...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Anne KembleFrancis the First, an Historical DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; and the same suspicion has arisen again in my mind, ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frances Burney, Madame d'ArblayWanderer, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 'Novel of "Nourjahad" in the evening. Nothing, I think, can be more happily conceived for its purpose, than the plan of this little romance...'Thomas Green Frances Chamberlaine SheridanThe History of NourjahadPrint: Book
1900-1945'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have thanked you sooner....William Henry Hudson Frances Crofts CornfordPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I like Capt. Younghusband's travels, though one might skip pages much like each other.'Emma Darwin Frances Edward YounghusbandThe Heart of a Continent:a Narrative of Travels in...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Eliza KingsleyCharles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His ...Print: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's...Florence Barclay Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse], because they never wanted any other book'Elizabeth Darwin Frances Hodgson BurnettLittle Lord FauntleroyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Frances Hodgson BurnettSurly Tim: A Lancashire StoryPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Bought book on War [possibly "Ordeal by Battle," by F. S. Oliver] to send to A. C. [Albert Ruskin Cook, her son in Uganda]. Finished reading The Tide on the Morning Bar....Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Tide on the Morning BarPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettHis Grace of OsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frances Hodgson BurnettA Lady of QualityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Making of a MarchionessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I must go to my ''Moral Ideal''. I like all about Plato and Socrates very much.'Emma Darwin Frances Julia WedgwoodThe Moral Ideal, a Historic StudyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matt...Sydney Smith Frances Milton TrollopeTremordyn CliffPrint: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'Emma Darwin Frances or Sarah BurneyUnknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am tempted by an Essay of Lady Verney's to read ''Millman's History of the Jews''.'Emma Darwin Frances Parthenope, Lady VerneyUnknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838: 'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poems, the more deeply I feel their beauty. I [italics]...Elizabeth Barrett Frances Sargent Osgood'romance'Print: 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


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