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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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1850-1899		'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, and talk with such fanatical warmth about his 'great...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American...Lloyd George Jeffrey FarnolThe Amateur GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".'John Frederick William Dunn William MagnayThe Amazing DukePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read what I call semi-serious novels. That is, it's got to have a love story woven through it, but at the same time well written, unlike the trashy love stories of Eth...Phillip GibbsThe Amazing SummerPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassadors, with comments including 'Pattern exquisitely wo...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf: "I used to note down sentences for my history, tha...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rose 7.15 and seem to have spent day writing, going on with Henry James's "Ambassadors", finishing "Britling", but most of all sleeping.'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bed 10.30, nearing end of wonderful "Ambassadors".'Ronald Storrs Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I...John Mitchel Mary SchweidlerThe Amber WitchPrint: Book
1700-1799I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in it. - Rows Ambitious StepmotherGertrude Savile Nicholas RoweThe Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the editor of their magazine, who had just been reading ...Archibald Grove Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with the help of a pin and a newspaper they lost or won pen...Gerald Moore Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1850-1899'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning, ...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the event I have given myself a holiday for the morning,n...Joseph Conrad Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 31st. [...] Read Common Sense by Paine and two numbers of the Crisis a Paper which he published during the American War.'Claire Clairmont Thomas PaineThe American CrisisPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Tuesday February 1st. [...] Read Paine [...] In Paine I find an account of the English cruelties in America and India'.Claire Clairmont Thomas PaineThe American CrisisPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 4th Read Paine [goes on to make detailed notes of issues concerning the American War of Independence, based on The American Crisis no.10] [...] Walk with La...Claire Clairmont Thomas PaineThe American CrisisPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825: 'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? "Knickerbocker." Mr. Irving has a charming English s...John Wilson Croker Washington IrvingThe American DutchmenPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale BancroftThe American RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalmed in a block of smooth amber: it is not unpleasan...Virginia Stephen Henry JamesThe American ScenePrint: Book


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