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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Lady [anon] Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' wa...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jane TaylorThe Contributions of Q.Q.Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [V...George Gordon Lord Byron Jane WaldieSketches Descriptive of ItalyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Jane Welsh before their marriage... She begins in the ...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare-brained a rattle as anyone could wish... She nearly...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] him [end italics] in a far better light. She is madde...Antonia White Jane Welsh[letters to Carlyle]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your sad Messenger is just arrived. I had again been cherishing Hopes, when the day of Hope was clean gone. Compose yourself, my beloved Wife, and try to feel that the...Thomas Carlyle Jane Welsh CarlyleMessage about Aunt's deathManuscript: Letter
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina M...Jane Austen Jane West[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelists "of considerable genius, as well as strict morals"...Elizabeth Carter Jane WestA Tale of the Times and other worksPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have sent you the "Gossip Story" to review, as you wish to read it, but I would thank you if you would do it immediately, because Johnson is in want of materials for t...Mary Wollstonecraft Jane WestA Gossip's StoryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis...John Marsh Jane WestThe History of Ned EvansPrint: Book
1900-1945'On with "Ambassadors" and some of Jane Harrison's "Ancient Art and Ritual": which makes me fear I shall never rise to the rarer heights of folklore and anthropology.'Ronald Storrs Jane Ellen HarrisonAncient Art and RitualPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...Anne Romilly Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the subject is in a state of astonishment, and those, who ...James Mansfield Jane Haldimand MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do so want to talk over Mrs Carlyle with you, and I hope you will get it soon. It is most interesting and entertaining, but what a coarse woman, though only to a husba...Emma Darwin Jane Welsh CarlyleLetters and Memorials of Jane Welsh CarlylePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved.


5. Eight anonymo...

Howard Smith Janet Rawlings[Moroccan memories]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Elizabeth T. Alexander Janet RawlingsUniformsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 23.6.36
    Francis E Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and, with the addition of No. 7, ap...		Janet Rawlings Janet Rawlings[On E. H. Young’s Miss Mole]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House 31st May 1941
R. D. L. Moore in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.

[...]		Roger Moore Janet RawlingsLetter to the XII Book ClubManuscript: Letter


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