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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwar...Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord TennysonFuneral OdePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant Edward JenkinsGinx's BabyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine...Margaret Oliphant George ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to m...Madame de Montalembert Montalembertjournals of MontalembertManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Then I called at Lucy Clifford?s. She showed me a short preface she has written to those stories of hers about "Worldly Women" wh. are coming out in a book. I found faul...Leslie Stephen Lucy CliffordLove letters of a worldly womanPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh...Margaret Oliphant CollinsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh...Margaret Oliphant Anthony TrollopeCaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember bei...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart[verses]Unknown
1850-1899'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture ...Margaret Oliphant Alexander AllardyceCity of SunshinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantMrs ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ...A.W. Kinglake Margaret OliphantCaritaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complica...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'Margaret Oliphant Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.'Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the b...Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant [newspaper]Print: Newspaper


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