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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Aubrey de Vere on Tennyson's second visit to Ireland, as his guest, during 1848: 'In the evenings he had vocal music from Lady de Vere and her sister, and Sonatas of M...Alfred Tennyson Crabbe'A Sorrowful Tale'Print: Book
1900-1945'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same author were then given by F.J. Edminson, C.L. Stansfield...Miss Goadby Miss Goadby'A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[il...		James Chesterton Bradley Robert Keating Smith'A Well Known Character in Fiction'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was much interested in your "Saturday [Review]" article [apparently about birds in Kew Gardens].'William Henry Hudson J. Rudge Harding'A Woodpecker at Kew'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Morning Post [...] I enclose from it this jolly letter ...Edward Morgan Forster Count Ernst von Reventlow'A Year of Naval Warfare'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Sir Robert Peel to John Murray, 7 July 1840: 'I forgot to thank you for the last edition of the Handbook, but I have found leisure to look into it, and have read man...Sir Robert Peel 'account of places in the neighbourhood of Paris'Print: Book
1850-18997 December 1879: 'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Read over the fire. First Freeman's account of the Bay...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Freeman'account of the Bayeux tapestry'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When Millais left, my parents read together Souvestre's account of the Bretons. The fact that their most popular national songs are religious and that, when the cholera ...Alfred and Emily Tennyson Souvestre'account of the Bretons'Print: Book
1800-1849'To Time' 'In Fancy's eye, what an extended span / ...' 'Clare'E.E.R. John Clare'Address to Time' from The Village MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'read S's Adonais.'Mary Shelley Percy Bysshe Shelley'Adonais'Print: Unknown, editors mention that it was the poem printed on its own
1800-1849[Hogg is enclosing his 'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston'] 'No body ever saw it but Dr Moir (Delta) who read it and will recognize it at first sight but as it is likely ...David Macbeth Moir James Hogg'Adventures of Colonel Peter Aston, The'Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me: I had been much pleased with them at a very early ...Samuel Johnson William Hamilton'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate'Print: Book
1700-1799Mrs Winn told us our fortunes out of the Almanick, some things to me very strange...(Mrs) Winn 'Almanack' OR 'Almanick'Print: Book, almanack
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earne...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]'Amos Barton'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Last night M. Besse read Anatole France—the charming tale of Celestin and Amicus, the hermit and the fawn.Freya Stark Anatole France'Amycus et Celestin'Print: Book
1900-1945Last night M. Besse read Anatole France—the charming tale of Celestin and Amicus, the hermit and the fawn.Antonin Besse Anatole France'Amycus et Celestin'Print: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'An den Mond'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 30 October 1844: 'There is Granville, as if he had been settled here a year, cracking his sides ov...Lord Granville 'an old book of plays'Print: Book
1700-1799I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hymn book of mine.Joseph Hunter 'An old Hymn Book'Print: Book
1900-1945'I hope you have read your Times Literary Supplement this week: do you see that the commonwealth of letters is richer by a great new poet? Now let the stars retire for ...Clive Staples Lewis 'An Uncertain Voice'Print: Serial / periodical


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