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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love them! -- the more I believe, because they hearken w...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Colley Cibber to Samuel Richardson, 6 June 1753, following visit to Richardson on 3 June 1753: 'The delicious meal I made of Miss Byron on Sunday last, has given me an...Colley Cibber Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751: 'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, did you ever call Pigmalion a fool, for making an ima...Catherine Talbot Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, on life at Cuddesdon, 8 September 1753: 'Our days here pass too pleasantly to want any foreign enlivening [...] country scenes, c...Catherine Talbot and familySamuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753: 'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes of his most charming work, and I heartily wish, for...Elizabeth Carter Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:] 'I have not been a fort'n-night [sic] at home. The contrast between m...Thomas Edwards Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1700-1799Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752: 'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading some of your last scenes [...] I have made some litt...Anne Donnellan Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Patrick Delany to Samuel Richardson, 20 December 1753: 'I have begun a second time with Sir Charles Grandison, and assure you, in the main, I am better pleased with it...Patrick Delany Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonUnknown
1850-1899'See No. 571, last page; an article, called Sir Claude the Conqueror ... The story in question, by the by, was a last chance given to its drunken author; not Villiers - t...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter VilliersSir Claude the Conqueror (in Young Folks)Print: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		" ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p...John Ruskin Philip NicholsSir Francis Drake RevivedPrint: Book
1850-1899From Phillips Brooks's journal (1883), on a visit to Tennyson's home: 'After dinner, Tennyson and I went up to the study [...] and I had him to myself for two or three...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonSir GalahadUnknown
1900-1945'Talking of books — you might ask, when do I talk of anything else — I have read and finished "The Green Knight", which is absolutely top-hole: in fact the only fault I...Clive Staples Lewis Ernest John Brigham KirtlanSir Gawain and the Green Knight: Rendered Literall...Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Beatrice Webb to Mrs Ward about her novel "Sir George Tressady"] the story is very touching and you have an indescribable power of making your readers sympa...Beatrice Webb Mary Augusta WardSir George TressadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Letter from Rudyard Kipling to Mrs Ward] I am delighted to have "Sir George Tressady" from your hand. I have followed him from month to month with the liveliest wonder ...Rudyard Kipling Mary Augusta WardSir George TressadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa, Lady Stuart Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa Clinton Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'.Emma Darwin unknown unknownSir H. Taylor's LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham:    23.5.33
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved
...		George Burrow Anon Sir HughUnknown
1900-1945Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harman's Wife"); at least I had, for the first time with ...Henry James H. G. WellsSir Isaac Harman's WifePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 17 October 1826: 'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as the stile [quotes from Jonathan Swift, "On the Dea...Walter Scott Harrison AinsworthSir John ChivertonPrint: Book


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