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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
1850-1899'I cannot tell how I feel, who can ever? I feel like a person in a novel of George Sand’s; I feel a desire to go out of the house, and begin life anew in the cool blue ni...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boys between eleven and fourteen, in the course of whic...Mary Augusta Ward Rudyard Kipling Print: Book
1850-1899'My dear Henley, Sketches III line 11. More laughter comes from them than moan. IV As a whole. VII Both quatrains. VIII line 2. Extemporising a becoming gloom. I...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and PortraitsPrint: Probably proof.
1850-1899'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, C...Robert Louis Stevenson unknownlaw booksPrint: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.
1850-1899[On blank recto flyleaf at the beginning of the volume:] 'My Dear Brown,/ Here it is, with the mark of a San Francisco BOUQUINISTE. And if ever in all my "human conduct" ...Robert Louis Stevenson William PennFruits of SolitudePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finished Nanon...'Robert Louis Stevenson George SandNanonPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordThe Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a ...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Hay Athole Macdonaldelection speechUnknown
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have been reading a paper of my father's in Nature.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Stevensonletter (in "Nature")Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...Harry Castieau Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into the office & looked over some of the pages of my las...John Buckley Castieau Peter Parley [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The gay and free S.C. has at last written to me; but has not pleased me: does he think I can do anything with my “Spring-time”, that’s what I want to know.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneTwice-Told TalesUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneBlithedale RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Charles LambunknownUnknown


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