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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841: 'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .. comprehension, I was going to say! [...] There a...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningPippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'Mary Shelley Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looking twins who are speaking a language like Danish and... [unknown]Pitman's bookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fairbairn's Christ in Modern Theology which also excit...Harold J. Morland Andrew Martin FairbairnPlace Of Christ In Modern Theology Print: Book
1900-1945'"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until...Thomas Bell Edward Bliss FootePlain Home Talk and CyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain Tales from the Hills? (R.Kipling)'. Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "History of Florence" (Machiavelli), "Essays in Soci...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was in high spirits this evening at the club, and talked with great animation and success. He attacked Swift, as he used to do upon all occasions. "The 'Tale of ...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftPlan for the Improvement of the English Language Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of th...William Bewley Samuel JohnsonPlan of a Dictionary of the English LanguagePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the English Dictionary and Plan (addressed to Chesterfield).Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonPlan [for Dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3.Vernon Lee Joseph S. BridgesPlant Study in School Field & GardenPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Plato's Two Cupids'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John NorrisPlato's Two CupidsPrint: Book
1850-1899'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that...Harriet Martineau George GrotePlato, and the other Companions of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Marsilio FicinoPlatonica theologia de imortalitate animorumPrint: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

1. Minutes of last time read and approved


[...]

4. The Subject ...

Francis Pollard Francis PollardPlato’s Philosophy: Ideas the true realityManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817): 'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I have perused with the greatest interest. A more superst...Maria Graham playUnknown
1850-1899From Tennyson's 'letter-diary' (1872): 'Nov. 1st. [...] I saw "Bijou" last night, and was ashamed of my countrymen for flocking to such a wretched non-entity, miserabl...Alfred Tennyson playbillPrint: Handbill
1900-1945'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following. 1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge 2. A paper by E.E. Unwin on the neo-Irish theatre 3...Members of XII Book ClubJohn Millington SyngePlayboy of the Western World, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ShakespearePlaysPrint: Book


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