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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein'Considerations on the French Revolution'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' (1607, followed ...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de ...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charles Moore, and Anacreon [ie Thomas] Moore at dinner. ...Mary Berry Thomas Moore'Corruption'Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.'Mary Berry Thomas Moore'Corruption'Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Helen Rawlings Robert Burns'Cotter's Saturday Night'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical Introduction' to The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe...Edward Morgan Forster Charles F. Richardson'Critical Introduction'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'"Crossing the Bar" was written in my father's eighty-first year, on a day in October when we came from Aldworth to Farringford. Before reaching Farringford he had the Mo...Hallam Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		'My father considered Edmund Lushington's translation into Greek of "Crossing the Bar," one of the finest translations he had ever read'. Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Crossing the Bar'Unknown
1800-1849'[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of the letterpress of the cabalistic books, which indeed...Charlotte Bury 'curious books on the black arts'Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 January 1850:

'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" — it is very brutal and savage....		Charlotte Brontë George Henry Lewes'Currer Bell's Shirley'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... the whimsey of Lamb and the stirring rhythmic ta...Chaim Lewis William Wordsworth'Daffodils'Print: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 9th. [...] Read Das Geheimniss one of Schiller's minor Poems.'Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von Schiller'Das Geheimniss'Print: Book
1800-1849'Saturday Feb. 10th. [...] Read Das Gluck a poem by Schiller.'Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von Schiller'Das Gluck'Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, concluding with a reading "Latter Day Warnings" for The...Charles Evans Oliver Wendell Holmes'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss ...Print: Book
1900-1945'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that the boat would not cross today, so took an exceedingly...Robert Lindsay Mackay James Shirley'Death the Leveller'Print: Unknown
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson often spoke of Goethe, in regard to his poetry. Much might be inferior: but as a lyrist certain p...Alfred Tennyson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Der Abschied'Print: Book
1850-1899'Throughout the autumn and winter evenings [of 1854] he [Alfred Tennyson] translated aloud to my mother the sixth Aeneid of Virgil and Homer's description of Hades, and t...Alfred Tennyson Homer 'description of Hades'Print: Book
1800-1849'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on some of those deserrted old halls. Do they not remind...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Deserted House, The'Print: Book
1700-1799'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh'Determinta'Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing
1700-1799'In a visit the Author of the Rambler made me on Monday last, I read to him your "Determinta", and expressed my wonder that he had not made a Paper of it, as I thought it...Samuel Johnson Lady Bradshaigh'Determinta'Manuscript: unpublished piece of writing


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