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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Howard Smith Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Mary E. Robson Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Dorothy Brain Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue 19.2.32
S. A. Reynolds in the Chair
1. On the minutes of last meeting read, R. H. Robson declared that he had not ...		Charles E. Stansfield Henrik IbsenThe Wild DuckPrint: Book
1900-1945'C. [David Lloyd George] says that Ibsen's Doll's House was the work that converted him to woman suffrage, & presented the woman's point of view to him.' David Lloyd George Henrik IbsenA Doll's HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong Henrik Johan Ibsen Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry ScougalThe Life of God in the Soul of Man OR The Nature aPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838: 'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of them -- but [italics]there is a want of abiding powe...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordpoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842: 'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? Mr Kenyon "caused it to pass before my face" & I di...Elizabeth Barrett Henry AlfordChapters on the Poets of Ancient GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our...Jane Austen Henry AustenSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Sermon II. Forgiveness a present mercy", ms note = "GFI ...clergyman Henry BluntSermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper ChelseaPrint: Book
1900-1945'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not care for Bordeaux though I do not know why.' Gerald Moore Henry BordeauxRobe de LainePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of Bracken's "Pocket Farrier", which I look upon as a very complete thing of its kind.'Thomas Turner Henry BrackenThe traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon...Print: Book
1700-1799"On 7 March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] remarked that 'I am now reading the Fool of Quality which amuses me exceedingly.'"Dorothy Wordsworth Henry BrookeThe Fool of Quality; or, the History of Henry Earl...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry BrookeThe Fool of Quality OR The History of Henry Earl o...Print: Book
1850-1899'You never no, never - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are book...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry BrookeFool of Quality, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson was present when a tragedy was read, in which there occurred this line:-- "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free". The company having admired it muc...Samuel Johnson Henry BrookeGustavus Vasa The Deliverer Of His CountryPrint: Book
1800-1849' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the authority of a friend who has seen the proof and manu...anon Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: proofManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Chronicle, have been duly received ... The Pamphlet I ...William Wordsworth Henry BroughamA Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of C...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was spending an evening at Charles Lamb's, when he saw t...William Wordsworth Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: Serial / periodical


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