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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a...Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth BookManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing till I had read tho...Joseph Conrad Violet Hunt The House of Many MirrorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are a mistake in a Year Book. You want nothing but ser...Arnold Bennett The Literary Year BookPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Peggy Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1900-1945"To the Editor, Dear Sir, I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you ... Uxbridge GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'E. reads the shipwreck of the Wager to us in the Evening'Edward Williams John G. Dalyell [account of shipwreck of Wager in] Shipwrecks and...Print: Book
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I ca...James Hogg [article on 'Agriculture' in Blackwood's Edinburg...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Blackwood and another in the weekly journal which I ca...James Hogg Walter Scott [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Babington Macaulay [perhaps] History of England [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were ...Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [verbal sketches of well known people]Manuscript: MS book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaics into the English language in his translation of Qu...Robert Southey John Milton ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ Print: Book
1900-1945‘J. E. Patterson has written a book around Minehead, perhaps "Fishers of the Sea", or no—"Love Like the Sea"; which I liked. Perhaps you might. He has power, but an a...Ivor Bertie Gurney Rupert Brooke"1914." Five SonnetsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945‘We are on a long march and I’m writing this on the chance of getting it off; so you should know I received your papers and also your letter … The Poetry Review you s...Isaac Rosenberg Rupert Brooke"1914." Five SonnetsPrint: Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article."Henry James William Dean Howells"A Pedestrian Tour"Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'Curious beginning of an alchemistical receipt. “In the name of God! take an urinal".' Robert Southey anon"alchemical receipt"Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849'Read Gildon's "Essay", prefixed to Shakespear's poems, in which he largely discuses Dramatic Poetry...'Thomas Green Charles Gildon"An Essay" in Works of ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in which...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoon) to copy out 7 or 8 apophthegms of Bacon, in whiic...William Fletcher Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders in nine apophthegms of Bacon -- all historical -- an...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1900-1945'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slowly and dully, staring at my candle. I took my Palgr...Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan Alexander Smith"Barbara"Print: Book


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