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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Edward Fitzgerald to Alfred Tennyson, 30 December 1876: 'Here I have a book of old Spanish Romances familiar to Don Quixote and Sancho. I shall write you out a [italic...Edward Fitzgerald 'old Spanish Romances'Print: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The play [Becket] is so accurate a representation of the personages and of the time, that J. R. Green said that all his researches into the annals of the twelfth century...J. R. Green Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you,...J. Bryce Alfred TennysonBecketPrint: Book
1850-1899The Right Honourable J. Bryce to Alfred Tennyson: 'As I have been abroad for some time it was only a little while ago that I obtained and read your "Becket." Will you,...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonBecketUnknown
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacLe Pere GoriotPrint: Book
1850-1899'On this journey [to the Western Pyrenees] he took Balzac's novels with him, especially delighting in Le pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet.'Alfred Tennyson Honore de BalzacEugenie GrandetPrint: Book
1850-1899Lady Cardwell to Alfred Tennyson, 9 April 1878: 'It may interest you to know another instance of the solace you have given those in distant lands severed from all thos...C. E. Gordon Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
1850-1899'My father's first meeting with the Princess of Wales took place at Mrs Greville's in Chester Square. The Princess asked him to read the "Welcome to Alexandra." When he h...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonWelcome to AlexandraUnknown
1850-1899'My father was fond of asking Joachim [celebrity violinist] to play to him in his own house. One particular evening I remember, at 86, Eaton Square. My father had been ex...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe RevengeUnknown
1850-1899'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than ...Alfred Tennyson Catullus  Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Ritchie was staying at Farringford when we came back from our foreign [Italian] travels. To her he [Tennyson] dwelt with more pleasure on the row to Desenzano than ...Miss Ritchie Catullus  Print: Book
1850-1899From Tennyson's manuscript notes on his volume of Ballads and Poems (1880): '"Rizpah" is founded on an incident which I saw thus related in some penny magazine called ...Alfred Tennyson Old BrightonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Mary Brotherton writes] 'I told him [Tennyson] the story [of the eighteenth-century woman soldier Phoebe Hessel] one day at Farringford, knowing it would touch him, and ...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'Bones'Unknown
1850-1899'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-room with a little wax taper in my hand ... a white t...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-189915 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has often told the Matron that until she came to this R...Eliza Salmon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to an invitation from the hospitable Sir Donald [Currie...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The Bugle Song"Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of a voyage on the Pembroke Castle (September 1883): '[18 September] In response to an invitation from the hospitable Sir Donald [Currie...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson"The Grandmother"Unknown


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