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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer LyttonSt Stephen'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our ...Maggie Oliphant A.B. JamesonLegends of the SaintsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F...Margaret Oliphant R.H. Story Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.'Marie CorelliBarabbasPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"G. H. Hardy Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899"[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'."Harry and Mary DrewMarie CorelliVendettaPrint: Book
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critic...Arnold Bennett Marie Corelli? The Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [...Margaret Oliphant David WingateMy Little WifePrint: Book
1850-1899"In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'"Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's CabinPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...'Queen Victoria Harriet Beecher StoweDred: A Tale of the Dismal SwampPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Pr...Queen Victoria Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter ...Princess Beatrice Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallDonovan: A Modern EnglishmanPrint: Book


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