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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to the Men's Camp". Comment of "Pow-Wow", the ladies peri...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Pow-WowPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.'[Mrs] Cole Lindley MurrayPower of ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Boleslaw PrusPowracajaca falaPrint: Book
1900-1945'My dear! Thank you for "Pozoga". C'est très très bien. It seizes hold and interests one as much by its subject as by the manner of its writing.'Joseph Conrad Zofia Kossak-SzczuckaPozoga:Wspomieniaz Wolnia 1917-19 (The Blaze: Remi...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph Blanco WhitePractical and Internal Evidence against CatholicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote a letter to Chas Butten at Tocopilla & then read a good bit from the book Cousin W.B gave me before leaving England & in Practical Christianity.'James Bennetts Williams William WilberforcePractical ChristianityPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been ...Lucy Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been...Martha Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Richard Lovell AND Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in the child's mind at the moment, and I am sure this ...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Alan Harapath ToddPractical Handbook of Surgical After-TreatmentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & they are all reaidng with delight Mrs H. More's rece...Harriot Webb Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more than ever convince me what a worthless wretch I am wit...Sarah H. Burney Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [underlined] you wish me to read my dear Susan please to ...Elizabeth Marshall Hannah MorePractical pietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more than ever convince me what a worthless wretch I am wit...Sarah Harriet Burney Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparatively small Faults and Virtues" merits to be written in...Sarah Harriet Burney Hannah MorePractical PietyPrint: Book
1900-1945[I am reading this] 'Because I've got a ten week's old baby. (Practical Psychology: Allen)' AllenPractical PsychologyPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson notes T. H. White's reading and annotating of C. G. Jung, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1928); Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysi...T. H. White Alfred AdlerPractice and Theory of Individual PsychologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook William Young FullertonPractice of Christ's PresencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Practitioner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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