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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde Walter PaterStudies in the History of the RenaissancePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.'Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsStudies of the Greek PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Trinity [Dublin]. The second volume came out in 1876, ...Oscar Wilde John Addington SymondsStudies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 5 October 1933: '[At Labour Party Conference, Hastings] I talked to Pethick L.; a frost-bitten blue eyed little old man now; & he was reading Holtby on V. W. You...Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Winifred Holtbystudy of Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a barrel organ writer [...] I'm judging WH only on ...Virginia Woolf Winifred Holtbystudy on Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1800-1849?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen...Charles Dickens unknownsubmissions to Bentley's MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ["Success"] had produced on me.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamSuccessPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the vision of Quivedo'Mary Shelley Francisco Gomez de Quivedo y VillegasSuenos y discursos de verdadesPrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...James Boswell James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...Bennet Langton James GraingerSugar Cane, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...James Grainger James GraingerSugar Cane, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in the West Indies and called it the Sugar Cane; it was s...Samuel Johnson James GraingerSugar Cane, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'The books came yesterday evening just as I was wishing for them very much [...] I took up ...		Charlotte Brontë Alexander John ScottSuggestions on Female EducationPrint: Book
[Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist of an introduction praising those who protect and e...Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de PompadourSuite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de...Print: Book
1900-1945'The first 60 pages [of "Summer"] might well have been written with one of those quill feathers one finds lying on a quiet field on a hot brooding summer day.' [Hence fol...Joseph Conrad Edith WhartonSummerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.'Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord TennysonSummer EveningPrint: Book
1850-1899'We were startled this morning, at seven o'clock, by a letter from Colonel Phipps, enclosing a telegraphic despatch with the report, from the sixth edition of the Sun, of...Queen Victoria SunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end un...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ernest HemingwaySun Also Rises, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'.Hilary Spalding Marguerite SteenSun is my Undoing, ThePrint: Book


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