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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy. [...] 'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy -- [...] ''Monday Se...Claire Clairmont Sydney Owenson, Lady MorganItaly (Volume I)Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] April 14th. [[...] Read Die Zerstorung von Troia, freie [...] Ubersetzung der zweiten Buchs der Aeneide [sic] [precedes this with quotation of lines 3-4...Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerDie Zerstorung von TrojaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann ...Claire Clairmont Benvenuto CelliniEine Geschichte des XVI JahrhundertsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] June 4th. [...] After dinner [...] M.G. [i.e. Chretien-Hermann Gambs] reads to me Schiller's Wallenstein.' Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] May 1st. [...] Read 1st Canto of Dante's Paradiso'.Claire Clairmont Dante AlighieriParadiso (Canto 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet & read Madlle. Panache to Johnny.'Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth'Mademoiselle Panache'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday [...] Oct. 8th. [...] Read in the afternoon [following funeral of one of her pupils]. Histoire de la Revolution francaise par Antoine Fantin Desodoards [sic]...Claire Clairmont Antoine Etienne Nicolas Fantin des OdoardsHistoire philosophique de la revolution de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging Dad. Clean forgets to send the wagon over the wei...Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer. Also re donation from Club and Mr. Milligan?s dat...Gerald Moore J. Ramsay MacdonaldSocialism: Critical and ConstructivePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'. Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is ...Gerald Moore Belfort BaxEssays on SocialismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' Gerald Moore Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Finished Hover Heath. Started Mystery of Orcival by [Thomas has left a blank here, evidently meaning to fill in the author information later]. 4-6 cards. William Thomas Emile GaboriauMystery of OrcivalPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment...William Thomas Continental TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment...William Thomas Bithia M. CrokerThe Old Cantonment: With Other Stories of India an...Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Very stormy wind + heavy showers too wet to walk about. So bridge. Read A Sign of Four by Conan Doyle.'William Thomas Arthur Conan DoyleThe Sign of FourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLeigh HuntpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonTheocritus poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Alfred Tennyson Virgil  Print: Book


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