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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.' Arnold Bennett Edmond and Jules de GoncourtGerminie LacerteuxPrint: Book
1850-1899'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.'Arnold Bennett A.C. Swinburnereview of 'The Golden Age'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I have, however, snatched 20 minutes for the first tw...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExilePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Have you seen anything of the Broadway: I rather like it.'Robert Louis Stevenson BroadwayPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not be refused by John Lane for reasons artistic. ? It ...Arnold Bennett George SturtA Year's ExileManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, & quite free from fault finding except as to one tri...Arnold Bennett John BuchanReader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Benne...Unknown
1850-1899'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next time you come to London. These sketches are obvious...Arnold Bennett Ivan Sergevich TurgenevA Sportsman's SketchesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & full of common-sense. I think he must be a great man...Arnold Bennett StendhalDe l'amourPrint: Book
1850-1899.'.. poor old Jack Sheppard. I doubt not Ainsworth meant to be moral.'Robert Louis Stevenson Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the table, and the reader had to suspend operations, cho...Robert Louis Stevenson William Forbes-MitchellReminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9Print: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Lawrence L. LynchShadowed by Three: A Detective StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899One of them asked what he had been reading. 'Lynch, of course,' said Louis promptly, with a twinkling in his eye. 'Lynch? Lynch?' The name was jotted down in a notebook...Robert Louis Stevenson Dashing Kate, the Female DetectivePrint: Book
1850-1899Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bending forward, his hands clasped, he gazed expectant, ...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Browning Print: Book
1850-1899Louis announced that he had written something he wanted us to hear. When we had taken our seats round the centre table he stood before us with a manuscript in his hand......Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonFather Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr H...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonWeir of HermistonManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899After lunch was always a pleasant time at Vailima...that was the time Louis usually chose to read aloud something he had written. We were an eager, attentive audience, an...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonThe Witch Woman
1850-1899Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was ope...Maria Steley [n/a][Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]Print: Book
1850-1899Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't care how soon, we get ther A child died today it is...anon [n/a][funeral service]Print: Book
1850-1899Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.' Newton Barton [unknown]Death Notch the Avenging RancherPrint: Unknown


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