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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Francis Jeffrey[ review of new edition of Ford's plays]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was m...James Hogg Francis Jeffrey[review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical V...George Crabbe Francis Jeffrey[review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.'Walter Scott Francis JeffreyEdinburgh Review: Combinations of WorkmenPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Fanny has just been reading a little of one of Jeffrey's reviews of Wordworth...'Fanny Wedgwood Francis Jeffrey[Review of Wordsworth]Print: Serial / periodical, Edinburgh Review
1700-1799'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'George Austen Francis LathomMidnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the forenoon read Liardets book on Seamanship, so as to prepare myself for the duties of 1st Lieut which I expect will only come too soon.'Albert Battiscombe Francis LiardetProfessional Recollections on points of Seamanship...Print: Book
1700-1799'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi...Sarah Scott Francis Lord BaconessaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the pe...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I should like to have written them. I think our Magazine pr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read with interest this most remarkably able account of a s...Joseph Conrad Francis McCullaghThe Bolshevik Persecution of ChristianityPrint: Book
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Francis Osborne[works]Print: Book
1600-1699'...which makes me remember my father Osborne's rule for a gentleman, to spare in all things rather than in that.'Samuel Pepys Francis OsborneAdvice to a sonPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up and spent the morning till the Barber came in reading in my chamber part of Osborne's "Advice to his Son" (which I shall not ever enough admire for sense and language...Samuel Pepys Francis OsborneAdvice to his sonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...Samuel Johnson Francis Osborne[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...James Boswell Francis Osborne[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading you...Henry James Francis ParkmanMontcalm and WolfePrint: Book
1800-1849On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its n...Francis Place Francis PlaceAutobiographyManuscript: unpublished memoirs
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Francis Pollard Francis Pollard[essay on Trollope]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem of Anglo-India with citations from the book. F.E. Pol...Francis Pollard Francis Pollard[paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India']Manuscript: Unknown


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