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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Frederick MarryatMidshipman EasyPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Been across before?" I asked him, condescendingly.
"Once or twice," he answered with a grin. "Have you?"
"A few times," I admitted largely; and I proceeded ...		Desmond Malone Frederick MarryatPeter SimplePrint: Book
1900-1945'Every child was given a little volume called King Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson leather, which I found slow going. The fate of books is strange. Perha...Edmund Blunden Frederick MarryatThe Children of the New ForestPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' Joseph Conrad Frederick O'BrienWhite Shadows in the South SeasPrint: Book
1900-1945'Let me thank you warmly for the two magnificent and interesting vol[ume]s about the South-Sea Isles which you have been good enough to send me.' Joseph Conrad Frederick O'BrienMystic Isles of the South SeasPrint: Book
1850-1899'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick PerthesMemoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religiou...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock[biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]Print: Book
1800-1849'My Grandmother and Miss Haynes dined at our house. Read Reynolds' "Comedy of Notoriety"; I think it is fully equal to the dramatist.'Joseph Hunter Frederick ReynoldsNotoriety: A Comedy [Five Acts in Prose]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Lady Vavasour's "Last Tour, and First Work, or a visit to the Baths of Wildbad, & Rippoldsau". - It is only one Volume, & is very entertaining and often clever, & l...Sarah Harriet Burney Frederick ShoberlFrederick the Great, His Court and TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now I will quit these dreary subjects, and tell you of a few nice books for you to read & like - The 1st Vol. of Campbell's life of Frederic the Great. The others [under...Sarah Harriet Burney Frederick ShoberlFrederick the Great, His Court and TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... I took them things for tea: I dreaded going on m...Elizabeth Fry Frederick Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899"By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the con...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print: Book
1850-1899"Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be ...Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Frederick Denison MauriceConscience: Lectures On CasuistryPrint: Book
1850-1899'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that striking and curious sermon of Mr Maurice's, entitled ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Denison Maurice[Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson praised the Earl of Carlisle's Poems, which his Lordship had published with his name, as not disdaining to be a candidate for literary fame. My friend was of opi...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleTragedies and PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Earl of Carlisle having written a tragedy, entitled "The Father's Revenge", some of his Lordship's friends applied to Mrs. Chapone to prevail on Dr. Johnson to read ...Samuel Johnson Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of CarlisleFather's Revenge, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Frederick Hugh CapronAnatomy of Truth, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...Samuel Johnson Frederick II King of Prussia[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero...James Boswell Frederick II King of PrussiaMemoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earl...Print: Book


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