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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Fortunately, the casualties were not very heavy and we varied the time by hunting rats and watching the mice playing about in the dug-outs. My own favourite practice was...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'... when evening came I sought the isolation of a disused hut at the bottom of a garden and revelled in poetic creations by candlelight as a solace to my distraught mind...Vero Walter Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.)Golden Treasury, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I didn't dare to look at your book ["The Scar"] till I finished a rather long thing which I was writing.[...] I have not been disappointed.There is power to begin with, ...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe ScarPrint: Book
1900-1945'And now more thanks for the book [" Le Nègre aux Etats-Unis"]. You have a most attractive French style--and very French it is too and yet with something individual-- and...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonLe Nègre aux Etats-UnisPrint: Book
1900-1945'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a whole, up to that sample then it is distinctly stuff...Francis Warrington Dawson Francis Warrington DawsonThe SinManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The novel --Good! Très fort!! As Pinker could not have done much with it before Easter I held it up here for a second reading.'Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Novel of George (published as The Pyramid)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am sending today the "Grand Elixir" to London.[...] That the story is clever, that the writing is in many respects admirable there can be no doubt.' Hence follow 12 li...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington Dawson Grand Elixir (The Green Moustache)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The story you sent me (I'm glad to have it) I remembered of course very well. It isn't the sort of thing that is ever forgotten.' Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe True DimensionUnknown
1900-1945'Now I have absorbed it I send you my thanks for "The Gift of Paul Clermont". It is a very charming and touching performance which one likes more the deeper one gets into...Joseph Conrad Francis Warrington DawsonThe Gift of Paul ClermontPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Ernest E. Unwin Francis William Bain'Bubbles of the Foam'Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Rosamund Wallis Francis William Bain'Ashes of a God'Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Alfred Rawlings Francis William Bain'Syrup of the Bees'Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Elizabeth Marriage Francis William Bain'In the Great God's Hair'Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Florence Reynolds Francis William Bain'Digit of the Moon'Print: Book
1900-1945'Before starting this [ie Macaulay's "History of England", v. 2] I read in a library copy two of F. W. Bain's Indian Tales "The Descent of the Sun" & "The Heifer of the...Clive Staples Lewis Francis William BainThe Descent of the SunPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 October 1849:

'The perusal of Harriet Martineau's "Eastern Life" has afforded me great pleasure; and I have found a deep ...		Charlotte Brontë Francis William NewmanThe Soul: Her Sorrows and her Aspirations: an Essa...Print: Book
1800-1849'... I was too severe on Newman ... There are many striking, wise and good things in the first part of his book, so that the latter falls on you with the shock of a sh...Jessie Sismondi Francis William NewmanThe SoulPrint: Book
1800-1849'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of Don Quevedo". It was, of course, a book from which ...Thomas Carter Francisco de QuevedoThe Visions of Don QuevedoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like it much. He said, he read it for the language, by wa...Samuel Johnson Francisco de MoraisIl Palmerino d'InghilterraPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of your book in the preface. Did you ever read any of ...Mary Shelley Francisco Gomez de Quevedo y Villegas[unknown]Print: Book


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