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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unl...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Pall Mall Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Barry CornwallCharles Lamb: A MemoirPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Charles RossThe Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Corn...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Harriet GroteCollected Papers in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862Print: Book
1850-1899'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as some other people are. Its smartness is degeneratin...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W...Harriet Martineau Frances Edgeworth ?[possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Sel...Print: Book
1850-1899'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Grey's 2 vols: of Correspondce between his father and W...Harriet Martineau Henry, Earl GreyThe reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the la...Print: Book
1850-1899'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the worst: - that I am intensely enjoying, this day or ...Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer-LyttonLost Tales of Miletus, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & then your nameless novel.'Arnold Bennett George SturtFruit Blossom TimeManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years earlier), that their acquaintance began. She wrote to ...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George MacdonaldWithin and WithoutPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham [anon.]Thousand Nights and One Night, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Lewis Carroll (pseud.)Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Lewis Carroll (pseud.)Alice Through the Looking GlassPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Walter Scott[Waverley novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham Frederick Marryat[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham William Harrison Ainsworth[works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which n...Thomas Carlyle Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondiunknown historyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham anon.La Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French were the "Maximes" of La Rochefoucauld, "La Princesse d...Somerset Maugham Jean anon.[tragedies]Print: Book


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