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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][German/English dictionary]Print: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceThomas, Lord MacaulayBiographiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceHenry Hart MilmanHistory of Latin ChristianityPrint: Book
1850-1899Referring to the reporting of the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902): 'I can't say I shared in the hysterical transports of some public organs for the sim...Joseph Conrad newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think Zack [Gwendolen Keats] may be congratulated on the novel. It is an advance on the short stories--a promising advance. I've just finished reading it having waited...Joseph Conrad Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I prefer to say nothing critical about John Buchan's story'. Hence follow more than twenty lines of quite strong and pointed, almost entirely negative, criticism.Joseph Conrad John BuchanThe Far IslandsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully good--and true. Thanks to you both.'Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Desperate Character and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As to your sketch (for it is that) in last "B'wood", it has pleased me immensely. The simplicity of treatment is effective.'Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordFather RouelletPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Manchester newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John TyndallGlaciers of the Alps, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell Wilhelm MeinholdAmber Witch, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art & Study in Italy, - thank you [italics] so [end itali...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNotes of Travel and Study in ItalyPrint: Book
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Edward Wilberforce'Purgatory'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'Charles Bosanquet [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday'Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or MargaretOliver Wendell HolmesElsie VennerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanSilex ScintillansPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts of Silex Scintillans.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanThey are all gone into the world of lightPrint: Book
1850-1899'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particul...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][newspaper acconts of events in America in run up ...Print: Newspaper


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