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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical reasonings) that I was utterly lost to all sense of ...Jane Baillie Welsh Grace Baillie WelshLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..."Henry James Grace Norton[unidentified articles]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Grafton Elliot SmithShell Shock and Its LessonsPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after de...Henry James Graham BalfourLife of Robert Louis StevensonPrint: Book
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr...Margaret Oliphant Graham TraversMona Maclean: Medical StudentPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Graham WallasunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]'Benjamin Newton grandfather of Benjamin Newton [sermon]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think it seems prettily enough argued."Henry James Grant Allenarticle (?in response to work by William James)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous condensation" of a sensational serial which the paper h...Arnold Bennett Grant AllenWhat's bred in the bonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224.Vernon Lee Grant AllenPhysiological AestheticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not like Grant Allen's book about your father. It is prancing and wants simplicity.'Emma Darwin Grant AllenCharles DarwinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Grant Allen’s”[The] Woman Who Did”, c’est un livre mort. Gr.[ant]Allen is a man of inferior intelligence and his work is not art in any sense. “[The] Woman Who Did” ha...Joseph Conrad Grant AllenThe Woman Who DidPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is also among the papers, one piece of absurdity by Mr. Grantley Berkely, called ?Chariot versus coach? which I had previously read and returned, and consequently ...Charles Dickens Grantley BerkelyChariot versus coachManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.'Tom Edwards Gregorio LetiIl nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829: 'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thirty one lines of Gregory Nazianzen's poem In laudem v...Elizabeth Barrett Gregory NazianzenIn laudem virginitatisPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 20 October 1797: 'I have procured an old translation of De Serres. but I am told the best account of the Maid [of Orleans...Robert Southey Gregory Lewis WayFabliaux or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscript...Print: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. October 20th, 1831: "Was in Mr. Boyd’s room before nine. Heard him say over the passages in the Prometheus, & read Gregory. He told me that he had a great ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus OrationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 19th, 1831: "He showed me his Benedictine edition of Gregory. It is in high preservation, & very beautiful. I will get one like it, whenever I ha...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book


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