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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'From time to time, Lang writes charming articles in the "Daily News": witness one, a week or so past, on Montaigne: it was a little gem.' Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[article on Montaigne]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The best trumpet that I can suggest is to read Thomas Carlyle’s Essay on Burns. Sick as I am of reading anything in which so much as Burns’s name appears, I was really e...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas CarlyleEssay on Burns Print: Book
1850-1899'I am sending you with my love a pretty edition of "Emaux et Camées" [of Théophile Gautier]. I don't think you have anything on your shelves of the bon poète. I haven't ...Joseph Conrad Théophile GautierEmaux et CaméesPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the way, I have tried to read the Spectator, which they all say I imitate, and - it's very wrong of me I know - but I can't'.Robert Louis Stevenson The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'. Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'When last observed, he was studying with apparent zest the exploits of one Rocambole by the late Viscount Ponson of Terrail.'Robert Louis Stevenson Pierre Alexis Ponson du TerrailLes Exploits de RocambolePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read M. Auguste.'Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph MeryMonsieur AugustePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.'Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph MeryUn crime inconnuPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.'Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph MeryLes Damnes de JavaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have fallen in love with the Charles of Orleans period and cannot get enough of it. I see six essays at least, on single characters: Charles, Rene of Anjou, Jacques Co...Robert Louis Stevenson Various[Texts by or about 15th-century French literary an...Print: Probably books and articles.
1850-1899'The Brittany game is simply “on it”. There are no two ways of that. [ref.to Note 1] Look here, my young and lovely friend, if you overwork like that, your numskull will ...Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinAt the Land's End of France.Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BurnsunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Allan RamsayThe Gentle Shepherd Print: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert FergussonPoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, one of the few who survived that fatal mistake, the Ba...anon Alfred TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor ma...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899'I shall never forget his [Tennyson's] last reading of "Maud," on August 24th, 1892. He was sitting in his high-backed chair, fronting a southern window which looks over ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonMaudUnknown
1850-1899Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855: 'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, but I have already a strong feeling of what it is [....Henry Taylor Alfred TennysonMaudPrint: Book
1850-1899'With the help of local schoolmasters in Wales my parents had learned some Welsh, and now read together the Hanes Cymru (Welsh History), the Mabinogion and Llywarch Hen.'Alfred and Emily Tennyson Hanes CymruPrint: Book


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