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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899 1900-1945	Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his sister] opening a box of soldiers. An anticipation of the...	George Otto Trevelyan	Thucydides	De bello Pelloponesiaco	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Marginal MS notes throughout. MS on flyleaf: "GO Trevelyan Harrow 1854". On half-title: "The lines in the outer margins are Macaulay's Sophocles i.e. read while Macaulay ...		Sophocles	Sophoclis Tragodiae superstites	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, compact story; disfigured by a delight in the loathsom...	George Otto Trevelyan	Jules Michelet	Histoire de France	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read between 1835-7: "transferred by me from his Bipontine edit...	George Otto Trevelyan	Marcus Tullius Cicero	M. Tullii Ciceronis Opera	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I have an idea dear Jack that any comment on your work can be nothing by now but ( in the words of the Pole in "[A] Lear of the Steppes"), "perfectly superfluous chatter...	Joseph Conrad	Ivan Turgenev	A Lear of the Steppes and Other Stories	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902: 'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...	James Chesterton Bradley	Charlotte Brontë	Shirley	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.'	Joseph Conrad	Prosper Mérimée	Tamango	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Maxime Du Camp	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet Campan	Mémoires	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Gustave Flaubert	Correspondences	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Benjamin Constant de Rebecque	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Karoline Bauer	Posthumous Memoirs: From the German	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Benjamin Franklin	Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Frank...	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove...	Joseph Conrad	Wilmot John Eardley Eardley (ed)	Reminiscences of the late Thomas Assheton Smith, e...	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Conrad's face would cloud over. He would snatch up a volume of Racine and read half a dozen lines.'	Joseph Conrad	Jean Racine	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says ...	David Lloyd George	George Meredith	The Egoist	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I don't think, talking of Americans, that I've told you about an old couple called Williams Jackson who have "debouchés" here as the trimmings of an American commission ...	Gertrude Bell	A.V. Williams Jackson	Zoroaster: the prophet of ancient Iran	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I was sent out first thing in the morning for a number of racing newspapers, over which my father pored while having his breakfast. Then he carefully wrote down the name...	Thomas Garratt		[racing newspapers]	Print: Newspaper
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'As classes were large and teachers few, individual tuition was scant. The three R's were the basic subjects, and scripture study took up a big slice of the time. And thr...	Vero Walter Garratt		Leviticus	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'"An Ex Mill Girl," [Ethel Carnie] who wrote the novel, "Helen of Four Gates," telling an English interviewer of the twenty years she spent in a cotton factory in the Nor...	Ethel Carnie Holdsworth	unknown unknown	unknown	Print: Book

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