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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be able to account for it.'Margaret A. Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's WanderjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'No skating scene in "Wilhelm Meister" whatsandever that [italics]I[end italics] can find, or hear of.'Robert Louis Stevenson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and/or WanderjahrePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would ...Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1800-1849'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before dete...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMeister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume)Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation of soul, joined to a high moral character. Goethe's...Charlotte Bury Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relati...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his life. Gissing's wide reading has been often noted b...George Gissing Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield dealt in detail with Goethe's Faust. he showed that Faust started by Goethe at the age of 20 & finished when over 80 yrs is an expression of his own life...Charles Stansfield Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary Pollard Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Mary E. Robson Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Janet Rawlings Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe Sorrows of Young WertherPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

George Burrow Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGefundenUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Elizabeth T. Alexander Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes of the last read. It was felt that Minute 6 needed so...

Victor Alexander Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johannes CocceiusOpera omnia theologicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.George Eliot [pseud] Johannes ScherrGeschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr[perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 January - 8 February 1793: Charles Collins has been so busy with his Lent verses that I see little of him — he is my monit...Charles Collins Johannes SecundusLiber Basiorum (Book of Kisses)Print: Book



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