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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe...Constance Smedley Henry David ThoreauunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton Henry David Thoreau Print: Book
1900-1945'I arrived half-dead at La Neuville, and slept there for twelve hours or more. The next day we went to Braches, and then on foot to Rouvrel. About there, the countr...Herbert Edward Read Henry David ThoreauWaldenPrint: Book
1900-1945When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that her father had read 'The Blue Lagoon' and thought it ...Henry De Vere StacpooleThe Blue LagoonPrint: Book
1900-1945When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that her father had read 'The Blue Lagoon' and thought it ...Betty Martin Henry De Vere StacpooleThe Blue LagoonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Some poems have been lately printed here by the Revd. E Holder written between the age of 17 & 20. I only ...Robert Southey Henry Evans HolderMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit fo...Virginia Woolf Henry Festing JonesSamuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Me...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Henry Fothergill ChorleyLion: A Tale of the Coteries, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838: 'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley editor of the Athenaeum, which speaks [italics]huge[...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill Chorleyletter (extract)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly indicative of ability [...] brilliant with allusi...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyThe Lion, a Tale of the CoteriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little while ago -- but not as Mr Chorley's. Henrietta [s...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleySketches of a Sea Port TownPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyMemorials of Mrs HemansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845: 'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with interest & moral assent, & with great pleasure in v...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyPomfretPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'.Sydney Smith Henry Gally KnightForeign and Domestic View of the Catholic QuestionPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the basuis of a poem]'George Crabbe Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]Print: Book


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