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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and you see how she, a person of true artistic soul, revel...Virginia Woolf Margaret SymondsDays Spent on a Doge's FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Vanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899#Last night I set to work and Bob wrote to my dictation three or four pages of "V. Hugo's Romances" ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Victor Hugovarious romancesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have been doing the very scenes he mentions & his descri...Cornelia Sorabji RuffiniDr AntonioPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji BrowningunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Cornelia Sorabji Criminal DigestPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are in the far west. The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30 I had a Browning & Thackeray, a Criminal Digest & some need to work to occupy me & so t...Richard Sorabji LyttonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Look at the 19th Century for October. It has an article in by me which the Editor has called “Stray Thoughts of an India Girl” – I called it Social India but found that...Cornelia Sorabji'Stray Thoughts of an Indian GirlManuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Public OpinionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embra...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown[law books]Print: Book, Law books in the plural.
1850-1899'I say, how nice S.C.’s ‘Walker’ is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinFrederick Walker. In Memoriam.Print: Given the date of the letter, RLS may have read the article in proof.
1850-1899'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform pla...Robert Louis Stevenson Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] [memorial on grave]Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
1850-1899'Read to the youngsters in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. "Listen here Castieau" said she & ...Polly Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Domenico ComparettiVergileo nel Medio EvoPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Paul BourgetPhysiologie de l'Amour ModernePrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Alexandre DumasNouveaux Entre'actesPrint: Book


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