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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - n...John Mitchel [n/a]The Times [and other English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South Afr...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate te...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Hobart Town, informing me that he has established a ne...John Mitchel Patrick O'Donohue (editor)Irish ExilePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the ne...John Martin [n/a][Irish newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "...John Mitchel [n/a]Colonial TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their i...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? contempt.' Arnold Bennett Marie CorelliSorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1850-1899'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly Review of 1881, on ?some technical elements of styl...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonSome technical elements of style in literatuePrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of at the moment...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the principles of its construction is both 'entertaining & i...Arnold Bennett Edmund and Jules de GoncourtRenee MauperinPrint: Book
1850-1899 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you...Arnold Bennett George MooreunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring back such books of mine as you have; I have others you ...Arnold Bennett Robert Louis StevensonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little actual criticism, I imagine it to give a sort of impr...Arnold Bennett Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1850-1899'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) whose 3 books I have consistently belauded wants to ...Arnold Bennett George PastonA Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.' Arnold Bennett George MooreA Modern LoverPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other soul. He is simply unspeakable. I will ram this stat...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevSmokePrint: Book
1850-1899"'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set it down as the greatest within my knowledge." ...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevOn the EvePrint: Book


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