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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 23 September 1831: 'I could hardly believe when I read the "Times" that my girls had dined at the Palais Roya...Harriet Countess Granville society reports (on reader's own daughters)Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues on Poetic Inspiration? for a long time and was glad...Gerald Moore Xenophon/PlatoSocratic DiscoursesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the time I read Proust. As no one on board has ever heard of Proust, but has enough French to translate the title, I am looked at rather askance for the num...Vita Sackville-West Marcel ProustSodom et GonorrhePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 72 Shinfield Road. 5th May 1941
    A. G Joselin in the chair.

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5. F. E. Pollard then undertook...		Francis E. Pollard Matthew ArnoldSohrab and RustumUnknown
1900-1945Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually written and composed in Berlioz’s time. Arnold Bennett Hector BerliozSoirées de l'OrchestrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".'Robert Lindsay Mackay Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting MenPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet
1850-1899'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It i...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingSoldiers ThreePrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived gr...Felicia Hemans Caroline BowlesSolitary HoursPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.'Blanche Ridges Elizabeth von ArnimSolitary Summer, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.'John Buckley Castieau Johann Georg ZimmermannSolitudePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had time yesterday to read your poem. In fact I read it three times. Once in the train. Once after luncheon in the library. And once before I went to bed.'Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-WestSolitudeUnknown
1700-1799'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1798].'Joseph Hunter Johann Georg ZimmermannSolitude, or the effect of Occasional RetirementPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very instructive; I have not finishe'd it but it was time ...Joseph Hunter Johann Georg ZimmermannSolitude, or the effect of Occasional RetirementPrint: Book
1800-1849‘You perhaps recollect the only rememberable lines in Prior’s Solomon – that very respectable poem, which nevertheless, is rather too like one of Mrs. Fry’s Newgate-mad...Hartley Coleridge Matthew PriorSolomon on the Vanity of the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read th...John Clare [n/a]Solomon's SongPrint: Book
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos...Samuel Bamford anonSome account of the disturbances at GlenlucePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for a book which I have not yet received -- but expect t...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Feli...Print: Book
1800-1849'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been to...Sydney Smith Mary BerrySome Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, L...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert ChambreSome Animadversions upon the DeclarationPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she doth very well; and was Mr Boyle's discourse upon the ...Elizabeth Pepys Robert BoyleSome considerations touching the style of the Holy...Print: Book


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