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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Mr Hope' to Mary Berry: 'Your preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] I devoured the moment I got it. I have since not [italics]despatched[end ital...Mr Hope Mary BerryPreface and Notes to Letters of Madame du DeffandPrint: Book
1850-1899'I had a most successful afternoon with Mrs [Humphrey] Ward yesterday. Their villa is a vision of beauty, looking over the Alban Lake on one side and the Campagna on the ...Gertrude Bell Mary Augusta Ward Preface to "Jane Eyre" Unknown
1800-1849Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo...Thomas Carlyle George MoirPreface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue
20th III 1935
Howard R. Smith in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved

...		Dorothy Brain George Bernard ShawPreface to Back to MethuselahPrint: 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 JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:] 'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen part of the Preface, which was like himself. I have ju...Elizabeth Carter Samuel JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 12 May 1809: 'This morning I had the Bishop of Rodez with me for nearly two hours. I read to him my preface and my "Notice on the Life [of Madame du...Mary Berry Mary BerryPreface to edition of Letters of Madame du DeffandManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand] and L...The Rev. Sydney Smith Mary BerryPreface to edition of Letters of Madame du DeffandManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E...		Mary E. Robson George Bernard ShawPreface to John Bull’s Other IslandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain, the Unities of Time and Place in his Dramas...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonPreface to ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'Guizot's edition of Prince Albert's Speeches': 'I ...Alfred Tennyson GuizotPreface to Speeches of Prince AlbertPrint: Book
1800-1849'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he probably was married.'Jane Austen George Crabbepreface to The BoroughPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.' J.B. Pinker Arnold Bennettpreface to The Old Wives' TalePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really...Henry James Edmund GossePreface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamPreface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in MoroccoManuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages
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1900-1945		Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp...Henry James Katherine Prescott WormeleyPreface [on Balzac]Print: proof
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind; the day, yesterday to be exact, being so triumphant...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPreface, Portrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Queen, regarding which Forster comments: 'Interesting...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenPreface, The Maiden QueenPrint: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, full of strange vigour and remarkable in many ways; d...Robert Browning Robert BrowningPreface, The Ring and the BookUnknown
'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson] The Bishop, to whom I had the honour to be known several years ago, shews me much attention; and I am edified by his conversation. I mu...Beilby Porteus Samuel JohnsonPrefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works ...Print: Book


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