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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899?I got a quiet seat behind a yew hedge and went away into a meditation. It [i.e. the windswept scene in the garden at Swanston Cottage] somehow reminded me of your letter...Robert Louis Stevenson Frances SitwellletterManuscript: Letter, Passage refers to various letters from Frances Sitwell to RLS, dates and subjects unspecified here. Letters received by RLS before 4 June 1874 [date ascribed by the editors to the cited passage].
1850-1899?Yesterday, by the bye, I received the proof of "Victor Hugo"; it is not nicely written, but the stuff is capital, I think. Modesty is my most remarkable quality, I may s...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis StevensonVictor Hugo's RomancesPrint: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1850-1899?I was out, behind the yew hedge, reading the "Comtesse de Rudolstadt" when I found my eyes grow weary and looked up from the book.?Robert Louis Stevenson George SandComtesse de Rudolstadt
1850-1899?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myse...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandConsueloPrint: 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 W. Vernon-Harcourtpamphlet attacking Lord DerbyPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Read at the Athenaeum.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" managed to get through the evening until Polly went t...John Buckley Castieau Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte CristoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits aloud. Polly who was very tired got interested also & pr...John Buckley Castieau George MacDonaldThe Vicar's DaughterPrint: Book
1850-1899'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65.Vernon Lee Gilbert BalletLe langage interieur, et les diverse formes de l'a...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163.Vernon Lee Salomon StrickerDu langage et de musiquePrint: Book
1850-18993 November 1857: 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons [i.e. Charles Hay, and Julia Margaret Cameron]. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Ten...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-189917 March 1856: 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley [husband], who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. he had not re...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Frances Burney D'ArblayMemoirs of Dr BurneyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lady Charlotte stopped a few days with friends near Winchester, and while there her husband read in The Times '"[...] of a wonderful discovery in the manufacture of i...Charles Schreiber article on new method of iron productionPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I bought Darwin's last book in despair, for I knew I could generally read Darwin, but it was a failure.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DarwinThe Expression of the Emotions in Man and AnimalsPrint: Book
1850-189916 July 1857: 'Sitting alone at breakfast I took up the paper and saw in the military intelligence that Montague [son]'s regiment (2nd Batt. Rifle Brigade) was under o...Lady Charlotte Schreiber military intelligence columnPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'"Victor Hugo" has come; I like all your alterations vastly, except one which I don?t like, tho? I own something was needed there also.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson"Victor Hugo's Romances"Print: Proof copy of RLS?s essay on ?Victor Hugo?s Romances?
1850-1899?Goodbye. I am at "Knox and the Women", which seems good stuff when I come to put it down; but the arrangement cost me some trouble.?Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson[material on John Knox]Print: Book, Presumably numerous works by, and of general and specific reference to, Knox
1850-1899'[letter from Beatrice Webb to Mrs Ward about her novel "Sir George Tressady"] the story is very touching and you have an indescribable power of making your readers sympa...Beatrice Webb Mary Augusta WardSir George TressadyPrint: Book


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