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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handsomely.Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899'It is truly not for nothing that I have read my Buckley.'Robert Louis Stevenson Theodore William Alois BuckleyunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'Robert Louis Stevenson David Stewart of GarthSketches of the Character, Manners, and Present St...Print: Book
1850-1899'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair Maid of Astolat," and read aloud "The Grandmother."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Grandmother'Unknown
1850-1899'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not give you extracts from any of Milton's specially cont...Alfred Tennyson F. D. MauriceFriendship of BooksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson Thomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book
1850-1899'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage about the battle with the Romans. He went to meet M...Alfred Tennyson John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's diary: 'Oct. 17th. [1858] He [Alfred Tennyson] read aloud "The Rape of the Lock," and noted the marvellous skill of many of the couplets.'Alfred Tennyson Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1850-1899'The sudden death of Henry Hallam was a great grief to my father, for the historian had been a good friend through thirty years. On hearing of Mr Hallam's last days he re...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonIn Memoriam A. H. H.Unknown
1850-1899'In November [1859] [Tennyson] was reading with intense interest an early copy of Darwin's Origin of Species, sent him by his own desire'.Alfred Tennyson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899W. M. Thackeray to Alfred Tennyson, [September-] October [1859]: 'I owe you a letter of happiness and thanks. Sir, about three weeks ago, when I was ill in bed, I read...William Makepeace Thackeray Alfred Tennyson'The splendour falls...'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who a...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of the King" will be understood and admired by many who a...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1850-1899Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859: 'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with the greatest delight, the "Maid of Astolat" twice ov...Benjamin Jowett Alfred TennysonThe Lily MaidPrint: Book
1850-1899H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860: 'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a request which I have thought some little time of mak...Prince Albert Alfred TennysonIdylls of the KingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I cannot think how I omitted to tell you that I was pleased extremely with the dedication; it seemed to me and Fanny quite right and, if you understand, not too literary...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas StevensonLighthouse Construction and IlluminationManuscript: Unknown, possibly proof copy
1850-1899'The Duke and Duchess [of Argyll] spent some days at Farringford [...] My father [...] read aloud his "Boadicea," which he had now quite finished.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBoadiceaManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer." 'By the evening of Feb. 18th he had already written down a great pa...Alfred and Emily TennysonThomas MaloryMorte d'ArthurPrint: Book


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