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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodical, controverts some statements made in "Broadfoot's ...S.P. Oliver Illustrated Naval and Military MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is...S.P. Oliver PuigreJournalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie, the Civil Agent of Governor Farquhar at the court ...S.P. Oliver Jas (James) HastieJournalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual tre...S.P. Oliver Andrew LangLife, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcot...Print: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea...Shakespeare Reading Circle (local)William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 1880s-early 1890s: "Even when I was in London, I read ...Marie Belloc unknownContemporary French novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most difficult task to fulfil. The judicious curtailment and...S.P. Oliver DilkeArticle on Sir Stafford Northcote in the AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'H. G. Wells VoltaireunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began seriously to read Greek."'Mrs Humphrey Ward unknown[Greek text/s]Print: Book
1850-1899In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's...Henry James Rudyard KiplingMcAndrew's HymnUnknown
1850-1899'Dear Mr Blackwood, I see in "The Times" that you were present at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund." The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blights in Ireland". But may I be allowed to point out ...P.L. Park 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at...Robert Browning Robert BrowningRed Cotton Nightcap CountryUnknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr...Algernon Swinburne Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr...Algernon Swinburne Charles Lamb[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr...Algernon Swinburne Charles Reade[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr...Algernon Swinburne William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... No...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneLes Noyades
1850-1899'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spo...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneunknownUnknown


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