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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still r...James Hogg Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the last No of the Scottish Review there is a very long and exquisite review of the [italics] Wake [end italics]. It is a good article, said to be written by the edit...James Hogg Scotish Review [sic]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett United MethodistPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett 'Literary Notes and News'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid Browning ?12,500 for the first five years? rights in The Ring and the Book. It is just as w...Arnold Bennett Westminster GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [r...Leonard and Virginia Woolf newspaper report of US presidential messagePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Sunday 19 January 1936: 'I went up to an elderly stout woman reading the paper at the Times Book Club the other day. It was Margery Strachey [sic]. What are you doing? I ...Marjorie Strachey The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides be...James Hogg [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carm...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in both our minor reviews in the one with a good deal of ...James Hogg [review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The H...Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am sitting in my dug-out this evening eagerly discussing over a mug of tea poets and poems with a brother officer, when he is called away about some ammunition for his...Douglas Herbert Bell unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'.Dylan Thomas RainbowPrint: Serial / periodical, comic
1850-1899'Blackwood's Magazine for this month has an appreciation of F.M. Kelly's [James Fitzmaurice Kelly 1857-1923] edition of Don Quixote. Very fair. Nothing striking but disti...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by far too little variety in it though I think some of t...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
'I was much pleased with your last Review upon the whole which was the only No. I ever read; it is a much more amusing Review than the Edin. and I should think more engag...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
'"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it is [italics] scarce middling [end italics] as we Sc...James Hogg Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the I...Print: Serial / periodical
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first rate article as indeed I think all your principal arti...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold [sic] it has some incongruities and perhaps too much...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849'I have laughed at least as heartily at the continuation of "Daniel" as you did at the original the conceit is excellent indeed I see that mine was quite an imperfect thi...James Hogg 'Letter to the Lord High Constable, from Mr Dinmon...Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a ...James Hogg [ essay on H.H. Milman's painting 'The Fall of Jer...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I likewise received the Tales you sent me before from your friend in Edinburgh, and should have acknowledged them long ago; but a multiplicity of family and farming conc...James Hogg [traditional tales]Unknown


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