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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'He became especially interested in Shelley [and felt he could hear his 'music' in the Dunsden area] The "music" which he heard must have been that of "The Revolt of Isla...Wilfred Owen Percy Bysshe ShelleyRevolt of Islam, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubGeorge BurrowRevolt of the Innocents, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling us how he had passed through several occupations stud...Mary Robson Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Revolution in Tanner's Lane, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; Ramsay's "Revolution of...Mountstuart Elphinstone [David] RamsayRevolution of South Carolina [The history of the]Print: Book
1800-1849" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'...William Beckford StewartonRevolutionary PlutarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Denina's "Revolutions of Li...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Carlo] DeninaRevolutions of LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotRevolutions of Portugal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Rene Aubert VertotRévolutions romains Print: Book
1850-1899'I have indulged myself this year with the "Revue des Deux Mondes". All the articles I have read are very clever, with a moral and religious tone.'Jessie Sismondi Revue des Deux Mondes
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Rudyard KiplingRewards and Fairies Print: Book
1900-1945'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it "Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will...Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard KiplingRewards and FairiesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...G.W.M. ReynoldsReynolds's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams G.W.M. ReynoldsReynolds's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-fee I would have joined just the same.' [n/a]Reynolds's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et Zenobie by I. Crebillon [sic].'Claire Clairmont Prosper Jolyot de CrebillonRhadamisthe et ZenobiePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus. I read them [italics]regularly[end italics] thr...Elizabeth Barrett EuripidesRhesusPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rhetoric". Both Greek texts were copiously annotated and ...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle RhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightily to every kind of book or process which could impro...Harriet Martineau Hugh BlairRhetoricPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley [anon.]RhodaPrint: Book
1800-1849'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end italics], a heroine was merely a piece of beautiful ...Susan Ferrier Frances JacsonRhodaPrint: Book


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