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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: Book
1850-1899'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous...John Robert Clynes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simple lady of my acquaintance that "political economy is...Catharine Sedgwick Harriet Martineauworks on political economyPrint: Book
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...James Boswell Hugh Blair[letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke]Manuscript: Letter
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst Alexander PopeEssay on ManPrint: Book
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke[alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have just seen advertised in the new Edinburgh'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Revi...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabbage & potatoes, rice. Slept a little. Head shaved, wo...John Frederick William Dunn Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the SandsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shaw's Monody' 'I who the tedious absence of a day /...' [transcribes poem from line 11]B.A.T. Herbert Cuthbert ShawMonody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in CUnknown
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have something to say, but I am only paring away insinceri...Edward Morgan Forster James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Austin DobsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Republics". And she had read "Lara". Shakespeare alone po...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke J.C. de Sismondihistory of the Italian republics;: Being a view of...Print: Book
1800-1849'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Republics". And she had read "Lara". Shakespeare alone po...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke George Gordon, Lord ByronLaraPrint: Book
1700-1799'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."'Elizabeth Carter Francois-Marie VoltaireCandidePrint: Book
1700-1799'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.'Elizabeth Carter Teresia Constantia PhillipsAn apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constant...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man of Feeling", Coleridge, Mrs Shelley, and Crabbe'.Louisa, Lady Stuart Ben Jonson[unknown]Print: Book


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