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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'Alfred Tennyson Victor Hugo Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset.'Alfred Tennyson Alfred de Musset Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872: 'Sept. 5th. Returned [from Continental travels] by Lausanne and Amiens to Aldworth. A. read Le Lendemain de la Mort on the way.'Alfred Tennyson Le Lendemain de la MortPrint: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's 'letter-diary' (1872): 'Nov. 1st. [...] I saw "Bijou" last night, and was ashamed of my countrymen for flocking to such a wretched non-entity, miserabl...Alfred Tennyson playbillPrint: Handbill
1850-1899'I have just seen the Academy of April 9.'Robert Louis Stevenson The Academy: A Monthly Record of Literature, Learn...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Your last poem in the Cornhill was first class.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund Gosse'Timasetheos' in The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.'Robert Louis Stevenson John Addington SymondsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have just been reading your Odes; a lovely little book.'Robert Louis Stevenson Edmund GosseEnglish OdesPrint: Book
1850-1899This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome. Nov 21 1886". George Otto Trevelyan Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe poetical works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: Book
1850-1899MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side of the French line, and the attack on the French left...George Otto Trevelyan James GrantBritish battles on land and seaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Fortune has written another book, the Equipage of the Devil, which is fully worse than words can describe.'Robert Louis Stevenson Fortune Hippolyte Auguste Castille (Boisgobey)L'Equipage du Diable (Equipage of the Devil)Print: Book
1850-1899'Debans, the Dead Man's Shoes fellow has also disgraced himself in a work entitled Baron John.'Robert Louis Stevenson Camille DebansLe Baron Jean (Baron John)Print: Book
1850-1899'Symonds has gone off to Italy with your Bouvard et Pecuchet, a most loathsome work.'Robert Louis Stevenson Gustave FlaubertBouvard et PecuchetPrint: Book
1850-1899'Who did the Athenaeum I know not, but it is very kind.'Robert Louis Stevenson A J ButlerReview in AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The swollen, childish and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put 'bring' for 'lead', is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell ..'Robert Louis Stevenson Revised Version of New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Lang's Library is very pleasant reading.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew LangThe LibraryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Grant RobertsonKurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of...Print: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Sept. 5th. [...] Bauer-Sierre. Returned through Domo d'Ossola over the Simplon. The coming over was a great disappointment. Thic...Alfred and Emily TennysonGeorge SandLeliaPrint: Unknown


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