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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article ha...R.H. Patterson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was r...Colonel Moncrieff George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not..."Old" Gleig Review of "Lothair"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]'Lord Brougham George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in prin...Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbers even scarcely up to mark."Theodore Martin George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Gentlemen. I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound form a handsome library of themselves. I regret most...Francis Philips George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy ...Alex Innes Shand George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary.Emily Laszowska George T ChesneyThe Private SecretaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser TytlerLeila: or, The IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay Catherine SinclairHoliday HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac...Grace Macaulay The Wave and the BattlefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".'Grace Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc...Grace Macaulay Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc...Grace Macaulay Wilhelm HeyFunfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig FabelnPrint: Book


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