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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, ...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our four girls could see something of Scotland'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert ChambersDomestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. B...Margaret Emily Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, never - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality, - and that irrespective of their several merits. But books are book...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry BrookeFool of Quality, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conjectured that was derogatory to your wife would wound yo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Eric, - oh my dear Harrie I have always been meaning to read it,& never have. You see I was out of the house at Heidelberg when Marianne & Julia read it'.Marianne and Julia GaskellFrederick William FarrerEricPrint: Book
1850-1899'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but Miss Evans' life taken at the best construction, does...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st second, [italics] or [end italics] third, I forget w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas de QuinceyMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1850-1899'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauComplete Guide to the English LakesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ask [Mrs Davy] to let you see Miss Wordsworth's MS. account of the two poor Greens who were lost in the snow. Wordsworth said it was the most perfect [italics] English [...William Wordsworth Dorothy Wordsworth[MS narrative]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I met them in yr letter.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhiteTravel in Northumberland and the BorderPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will perplex the English public pretty considerably.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyHistorical Memorials of CanterburyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes from Clerical Life - I set "Janet's Repentance" abo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Janet's RepentancePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The book came in the middle of a storm of wind & rain o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen RaynardMissing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for who...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia [n/a]Macmillan's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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