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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Adelaide Morland Adelaide Morland[paper on Matthew Arnold as poet]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Adelaide Morland Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Edminson Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Frederick Burgess Matthew Arnold Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.Bertha Pollard Matthew Arnold'Rugby Chapel'Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.John Luther Hawkins Matthew Arnold'Dover Beach'Print: Book
1850-1899'The following readings were also given: The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover Beach by Mr Hawkins'.Florence Hawkins Matthew Arnold'Forsaken Merman, The'Print: Book
1850-18996 July 1853: 'Read three first characters of Chaucer's Prologue.'Lady Charlotte Guest Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales (Prologue)Print: Book
1850-1899'Today, I got rather a curiosity - Lieder und Balladen von Robert Burns, translated by one Silbergleit, and not so ill done either.'Robert Louis Stevenson L G SilbergleitRobert Burns' Lieder und Balladen [etc]Print: Book
1850-189927 June 1853: 'After breakfast [...] Mrs. Schreiber [visiting her sick son Charles] asked me if I would read to the invalid, which at her request I could not refuse to...Lady Charlotte Guest The Prayer BookPrint: Book
1850-1899?I have just been reading "Maud". Do not fear, dear; it has not been unpleasant to me; I see and know and accept all the limitations without a grudge.? Robert Louis Stevenson Alfred, Lord TennysonMaud; A MonodramaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading...Calvin.' Robert Louis Stevenson John CalvinunknownUnknown
1850-1899'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruct...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[Roman law]Unknown
1850-1899'...I have been continuing to work at ... John Knox...'Robert Louis Stevenson John KnoxunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Struggling away at "Fables in Song" .'Robert Louis Stevenson Edward Robert Bulwer-LyttonFables in SongUnknown
1850-189926 June 1853: 'Went to Mr. Schreiber before going to Church [...] I certainly thought him weaker and less well. I read and prayed as usual. How I got through it I cann...Lady Charlotte Guest  Print: Book
1850-1899Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]: 'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croker, and was very much surprised and annoyed when I re...Lord Lyndhurst MacknightBenjamin Disraeli: A BiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere ...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book


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