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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Read "Nathalie" by Julia KavanaghAlbert Battiscombe Julia KavanaghNathaliePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Julia Kavanagh, 21 January 1851:

'I fear you will have thought hard things of me ere this — pronounced me ungrateful [...] but th...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghNathaliePrint: Book
1850-1899'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingNathan der WeisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography to escape the present day. With the loss of "US" cl... NationPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can...John Mitchel [Duffy]NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945 ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets Charles Garvice and Mrs Florence Barclay together. This ...Arnold Bennett NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'.William Richard Grahame n/aNational Gazette (Philadelphia)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansNational Lyrics and Songs for MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminiscences. . .'Arnold Bennett National NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at the warning of the writer against the Cabinet. It ...Henry William Williamson [n/a] [n/a]National ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm...Vera Brittain National-ZeitungPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which appear to me, upon first sight, to be very pretty.'Samuel Pepys John GrauntNatural and political observations... made upon th...Print: Book
1700-1799'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'William Wordsworth Gilbert WhiteNatural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Isaac TaylorNatural History of EnthusiasmPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.'John Ruskin Isaac TaylorNatural History of EnthusiasmPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:-- "CH...Samuel Johnson Niels HorebowNatural history of Iceland, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end ital...Louisa, Lady Stuart Gilbert WhiteNatural History of Selborne, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We viewed a remarkable natural curiosity at Islam; two rivers bursting near each other from the rock, not from immediate springs, but after having run for many miles und...James Boswell Robert PlottNatural History of StaffordshirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston])John Cole RhindNatural history of the RabbitPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.'John Cole RhindNatural History of the SticklebackPrint: Book


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