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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'It is necessary to explain, O Argive youth, that I have been reading the translations of Bohn, cunningly written with a reed upon the well-prepared tablets'.Robert Louis Stevenson Henry George BohnunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry George LiddellA History of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a very affecting letter from the Botany Bay Chaplain'...Sydney Smith Henry Grey BennetLetter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State fo...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'Sydney Smith Henry Harpur SpryModern IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Henry Hart MilmanFazio: a tragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Henry Hart MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry Hart MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - he excells in description - the outlines of his pictu...Jane Baillie Welsh Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart MilmanSamor, the Lord of the Bright CityPrint: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceHenry Hart MilmanHistory of Latin ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I think.' Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry Hart MilmanMartyr of Antioch, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source text author notes that Wil...Oscar Wilde Henry Hart MilmanHistory of the JewsPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Henry Hart MilmanHistory of Latin ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans that I have found very inspiring indeed.' Arnold Bennett Henry Havelock EllisAffirmationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I...Virginia Woolf Henry Havelock EllisMy LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Henry Home, Lord KamesEssays on the Principles of Morality and Natural R...Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in some estimation, though much of it is chimerical'.Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Mr Murphy Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book


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