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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us...John Masefield Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreylan...Virginia Woolf Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and myself. We both of us have great opportunities for publi...Arnold Bennett Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...R.B. Graham Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Charles Evans Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Katherine Evans Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...George Burrow Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life following which Mrs Robson read two passages from Type...Howard R. Smith Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did go no further. Lately I had in my hand "Moby Dick". I...Joseph Conrad Herman MelvilleMoby Dick or The WhalePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf anon mock epitaph for Virginia WoolfPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909: 'I never thanked you for the books [...] they are a godsend especially as I have jus...Leonard Woolf Earl of CromerModern EgyptPrint: Book
1700-1799'We began to read with Mr Jeagle[sic] instead of the modern history of the abbe Milliot "The Modern Europe" made I think by Lord Chesterfield'.Wynne sisters and tutor Mr JaegleLord ChesterfieldModern EuropePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7 Marlborough Avenue 22/10/45
Arnold G. Joselin in the chair

1. The minutes of the previous meeting were read & signed.

...		Dorothea Taylor Frank Kingdon WardModern ExplorationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'Sydney Smith Henry Harpur SpryModern IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond MacCarthy ... Wilfrid [Meynell] was requested to read ...Wilfrid Meynell George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 18...Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George MeredithModern LovePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton modern novelsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899' .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain pieces of Ruskin's Modern Painters, which she had ...Mary Augusta Ward John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many ...Victor Sawdon Pritchett John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book


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