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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844: '[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writer [...] Often when I have been very unwell, I hav...Elizabeth Barrett George Payne Rainsford JamesnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1855–1911Print: Book
1900-1945I have just read a 1/- book — History of our own Times 1885-1913. It is a kind of Lords Modern Europe written in a somewhat different style and embracing the whole ...Arthur Morris George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1885-1913
1800-1849Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 20 December 1826: 'I will ask you [...] whether you have ever read the Subaltern? It is said, by military men to be a very exact a...Uvedale Price George Robert GleigThe SubalternPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Stanley FaberA Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George Stanley FaberA Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri: Or ...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle George Stewart MackenzieTravels in the Island of Iceland during the summer...Print: Book
1800-1849'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George Stillman HillardThe Relation of the Poet to His AgePrint: Book
1850-1899'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st...[?George] Simpson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingManuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle
1850-1899'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st...Old Mrs Simpson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingManuscript: Sheet, Proofs of article
1850-1899'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for year...G.C. Swayne George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article ha...R.H. Patterson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was r...Colonel Moncrieff George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'Lord Brougham George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in prin...Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbers even scarcely up to mark."Theodore Martin George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound form a handsome library of themselves. I regret most...Francis Philips George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy ...Alex Innes Shand George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary.Emily Laszowska George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical


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