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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'March 11 [1914]
Joined Hampstead Library £1..5.
Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell
His Grace of Osmond
Helen Keller Out of the...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Helen Adams KellerOut of the Dark: Essays, Letters and Addresses on ...Print: Book
1900-1945'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cu...Joseph Conrad Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber ClarkOut of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd CornerPrint: Book
1900-1945As for me I am reading Wells on history! I think it wickeder than I did: but it's an amazing piece of book-making. When he gets past clerical & medieval times he's quite ...Ford Madox Ford Herbert George Wells Outline of History, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'behind my back, E.J. is reading H.G.'s [underlined] Outline of History [end underlining] & making riotous comments on Amenhotep IV who she declares is a lidie with two h...Esther Julia Ford Herbert George WellsOutline of History, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Herder's "Outlines of the Philosophy of the History of Man", of which I had heard high praise;--but was soon obliged to desist. He appears to write like a great c...Thomas Green Johann Goffried HerderOutlines of a philosophy of the history of manPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir William StewartOutlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the B...Print: Book
1800-1849'read Pennants view of Hindostan'.Mary Godwin Thomas PennantOutlines of the Globe (Vol I. The View of Hindosta...Print: Book
1700-1799'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are some beautiful plates in it.'Joseph Evans Thomas PennantOutlines of the Globe: the View of HindoostanPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am now reading a history of England by Douglas Hamilton, it seems to be very well written' Albert Battiscombe William Douglas HamiltonOutlines of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'As I expect a heap of books from England, I am having two book shelves put up in my cabin. I am afraid it will darken it a little, mais n'importe I am reading the consti...Albert Battiscombe William Douglas HamiltonOutlines of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] Cornelis Petrus TieleOutlines of the History of ReligionPrint: Book
1850-1899'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ general(ly) induces I was surprised into emotion by t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens & Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred against me in its last Issue & gave me credit for b...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens & Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechworth in connection with the Victorian Exhibition to be ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a majority of upwards of [?] over his opponents.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 21st.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper


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