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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayPendennisPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage followed by readings from his works Charles E. Stansfiel...Charles Stansfield William Makepeace ThackerayPendennisPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 7 December 1848:

'I have not yet read the second number of "Pendennis." The first I thought rich in indication of ease, r...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayPendennis (first instalment)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850:

'The last two or three numbers of "Pendennis" will not, I dare say, be generally thought sufficiently exciti...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayPendennis (instalments)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of their production. F.E. Pollard read an amusing acco...Reginald Robson Anatole FrancePenguin IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding unknownPenguin Parade 4Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II
Kingsley. Vol I.
[indecipherable]
Pennell 10/6 Edit. asked for.
The land of open doors.
B...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Maud PennellPennell of the Afghan FrontierPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Alice Maud PennellPennell of the Afghan FrontierPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Penny CyclopediaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Penny DreadfulsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came."William Tayler Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams Charles KnightPenny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Penny Magazine" was published - I borrowed the first volume, and determined to make an effort to possess myself with the second; accordingly, with January 1833, I d...Christopher Thomson Charles KnightPenny MagazinePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.'Harriet Martineau Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha...Mary Ward Joseph JoubertPenseesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They show great knowledge of men [...] they are very gloomy...Harriet Martineau PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while her husband was fighting in the Boer war], in a trans...Katherine Lyttelton Joseph JoubertPenseesPrint: Book
'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his "Prayer...James Boswell Blaise PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde Blaise PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1700-1799"Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotate...Mary Astell Pierre BaylePensees diverses vol 1Print: Book


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