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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is unintelligible to me - and, naturally, much of this par...William Soutar G.S. Fraser[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell G.W. DasentPopular Tales from the NorsePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...G.W.M. ReynoldsReynolds's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "This 'Court of London' I consider is a test of the taste of the readers genera...Abel Heywood G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams G.W.M. ReynoldsReynolds's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Reading of Brotier, Chronological Supplement [to de la Malle's Tacitus] recorded by Claire Clairmont on 4, 5, 6 April 1820.Claire Clairmont Gabriel BrotierChronological SupplementPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyCommonplace BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie (1589); on William W...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyLetter Book, 1573-1580Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday I finished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Graham's wife Gabriela.] Ca m'a laissé une profonde impression de tristesse [...] ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the "Life of Santa Teresa" is the impression of a wonderful richness; a...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pleasure that the reading of your charming sketch has ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamFamily PortraitsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I read first this wonderful book--the revelation for the ...Joseph Conrad Gabriela Cunninghame GrahamSanta Teresa: Her Life and TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has apparently read and admired.Henry James Gabriele D'AnnunziounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] translated ten epitaphs from Chiabrera's Opere ... probably ...between 26 Oct. and 4 Nov. 1809.'William Wordsworth Gabriello ChiabreraDelle Opere di Gabriello ChiabreraPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gabriello ChiabreraDelle OperePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the letters. How dull they are! how many letters writte...Charlotte Bury Galileo Galilei[letters]Print: Book
1600-1699'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impr...Robert Boyle Garci Rodriguez de MontalvoAmadis de GaulePrint: Unknown


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