√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John W. Kaye [possibly] Administration of the East India Compan... Print : Book1850-1899 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Malcolm [possibly] Government of India, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printer's name' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Homeward Mail, The Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecates her own letter writing style and says she is put ... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis James Child Ballads Print : Book1850-1899 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton [articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and a... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle [article in the 'Atlantic Monthly'] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the second no. has no such names, - & I'll tell you what... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic Monthly Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they began as early as Janry or February - They are a discov... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.] Scenes from Clerical Life Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such supreme interest as 'Lucknow' because your style (m... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Richard Monckton Milnes 'Lucknow' Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the Catacombs. Marianne & Meta always write the names o... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic Monthly Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1850-1899 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Elder Biography of Elisha Kent Kane Print : Book1850-1899 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton Life and Times of Aaron Burr, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton [Life of Barnum] Print : Book1850-1899 'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Paris. It was in the French language - & contained all t... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Henry Egerton Apercu Historique et genealogique Print : Book1850-1899 Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from ... Joseph Conrad Henry James The Real Thing Print : Unknown1850-1899 Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T." ["The Real Thing" 1892,1893] seems to flow from ... Joseph Conrad Henry James The Pupil Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I hold "Ipané". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jealousy. There are things in that volume that are like ... Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham The Ipané Print : Book1850-1899 'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinion in words that g... Joseph Conrad Mercure de France Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a paper on Charlotte Bronte.
Having a very strong int... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a] [advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine] Print : Advertisement
