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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.'Arnold Bennett George SturtletterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'Arnold Bennett George SturtFruit Blossom TimeManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & then your nameless novel. ...I am in a fever to fin...Arnold Bennett George Sturt[unnamed novel]Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little paper", but which I should like, for the good of lit...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Courting UmbrellaManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first tw...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic. ? It ...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExileManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.'Arnold Bennett George Sturtvoyage diaryManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There is scarcely a single statement in that article to whi...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Note on FictionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank to review in Woman. As for me, I shall review it in...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Book
1900-1945''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.' Arnold Bennett George SturtSome Peasant WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of George Bourne—very good. I mean really). In order to wr...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Small Boy in the SixtiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] George TicknorHistory of Spanish LiteraturePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together...Joseph Conrad George TomlineMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable William...Print: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'Mary Augusta Ward George Tyrrell Print: Book
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemne...Antonia White George Tyrrell[Jesuit writings]Print: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith George VancouverA Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his friend Dr. Waddington now entreated him to look through his ponderous an...George Grote George WaddingtonThe History of the ReformationUnknown
1800-1849'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'.Benjamin Newton George WoodsAn account of the past and present state of the Is...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, so absurd as scarcely to be credible if they had not ...Benjamin Newton George WoodsAn account of the past and present state of the Is...Print: Book
1900-1945'Did I thank you for George's history? I'm reading it now — it's a wonderful book. How wise and sane he is and how brilliantly he presents the picture. The first ch...Gertrude Bell George [?]Trevelyan?British History in the Nineteenth CenturyPrint: Book


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