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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Samuel Richardson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Ann Radcliffe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Matthew Gregory Lewis[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[iament] in 1644 and goes on to remark in the next sent...Leslie Stephen [a biography]Unknown
1850-1899?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo...Leslie Stephen James Russell LowellDemocracy and other addressesPrint: Book
1850-1899"I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary."Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB)Unknown
1850-1899Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b...Anna Blunden John RuskinThe Elements of DrawingPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ...John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown
1850-1899Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them...Anna Blunden Edmund SpencerThe Faerie QueenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."...Anna Blunden Elizabeth Barrett BrowiningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing...Anna Blunden John RuskinNotes on the Construction of SheepfoldsPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the A...John Ruskin Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H53, January 1857 "But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of hi...John Ruskin Hans Christian AndersenFairy legends and TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in po...John Ruskin The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Bur...John Ruskin Dante Gabriel RossettiThe Burden of NinevehPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description....Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters IVPrint: Book


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