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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274.Vernon Lee Charles W. FergusonThe Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernismsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his presentation of the commercial policy and the adminis...Joseph Conrad E.(Edward) D.(Dene) MorelThe Congo Slave State.Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic poem on the Conquest of Canaan in 1785. I had hear...Robert Southey Timothy DwightThe Conquest of CanaanPrint: Book
1900-1945'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath of fresh air to a breast oppressed by all the fumes ...Joseph Conrad David MeldrumThe Conquest of CharlottePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenThe Conquest of GranadaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of MexicoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly swollen wrist which prevented me from holding the pen...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamThe Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gon...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of PeruPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Shelley's hand] S. has read the life of Chaucer - Ochley's History of the Saracens. Mad. du Stael sur la litteratur - to page 113. of the third Vol....Percy Bysshe Shelley Simon OckleyThe Conquest of Syria, Persia and Aegypt, by the S...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.'Thomas Turner Richard SteeleThe Conscious LoversPrint: Book
1700-1799Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'.Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard SteeleThe Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.Print: Book
1900-1945I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments of depression. For myself, I have been more impres...Arnold Bennett Margaret KennedyThe Constant NymphPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being formed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The ConstitutionPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The Contemporary LiteraturePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to her her feeling that 'government of the thoughts' wa...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jane TaylorThe Contributions of Q.Q.Print: Book
1900-1945'Thanks my dearest fellow for the Che[k]hov vol. He is too delightful for words. Very great work. Very great. Do tell your wife of my admiration that grows and grows with...Joseph Conrad Anton ChekhovThe Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and cam...Thomas Burt [n/a]The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Charles RossThe Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Corn...Print: Book
1850-1899'The correspondence of Lord Grey and Princess Lieven is as good as history ... There is never a tinge of vanity or coquetry in her letters. His are solemn and dry though ...Emma Darwin The Correspondence of Princess Lieven and George G...Print: Book
1800-1849"On 5 Jan 1806 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] told Lady Beaumont; "'My Brother chanced to meet with Richardson's letters at a Friend's house, and glancing over them, read thos...William Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti...Print: Book


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