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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'When we were tired of singing we went into the house & did some Shakespearian Readings. Harry & I read the Grave-diggers. Harry read the Gravediggers very well. Afterwar...Castieau familyWilliam ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, long before I had the slightest suspicion it was yours...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duc...Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mr N. never knew, till long after Shirley was published, that she wrote books; and came in, cold & disapproving one day, to ask her if the report he had heard at Keighle...Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which I like exceedingly. What is the name of the man, ag...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John TuplingFolious appearances. a consideration on our ways o...Print: Book
1850-1899In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmund Burke and the Annual Register' [Gaskell then prov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Crossley'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and it was perhaps owing to their example that she had t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mrs Granville[tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') and her sister. They have together translated all th...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick PerthesMemoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religiou...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made o...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and ...Charlotte Bronte Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pamphlet on the Condition and Education of English chil...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Joseph KayCondition of Poor Children in English and German T...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Lady Kay-Shuttleworth Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil being done by [italics] want of thought [end italics].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Hood'Lady's Dream, The'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my goodness. I am sure that she works off a great deal that...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own power of judging, and could not tell whether I had ...R. Monckton Milnes Elizabeth GaskellRuthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression so much that I was thoroughly glad to see how peopl...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [letter of a 'First Hand']Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensiv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in every form of abuse 'insufferably dull' 'style offensiv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got very interested in four or 5 chapters, & then the boo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell H. MorleyPalissy the PotterPrint: Book
1850-1899'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have written it? It is so truly religious, it makes me swea...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical


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