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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe history of the adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Therefore, good-bye, I am going to take my beer and sardines; after which to bed and a chapter or two of Fielding.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1900-1945"Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing'] Arnold Bennett Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews'Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Joseph Andrews'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingHistory of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, a foundling, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945' I've read a lot, Boswell, de Quincy, Tom Jones, Plutarch. One sits in the sun until the heat of it drives one indoors again.'Vita Sackville-West Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom Jones this afternoon.'John Buchan Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, A FoundlingPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and the other on his achievement. [read Tom Jones & Evan H...Edward Morgan Forster Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...Samuel Johnson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"Sir, (continued he) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and [italics] there [end italics] is the difference...James Boswell Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...James Boswell Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book


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