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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it was stylistically "imperfect" and laughed at its ab...Oscar Wilde Charles MaturinMelmoth the WandererPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's copy of "The Bacchae of Euripides" edited by one of his Trinity tutors, R.Y. Tyrrell, has also survived. On the title-page of the famous play... Wilde wrote "Osc...Oscar Wilde EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's fellow pupils remarked on his veneration of the novels of Benjamin Disraeli, so it must have been a fairly unusual literary passion at Portora... Speranza litera...Oscar Wilde Benjamin DisraelinovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacLost IllusionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde Honore de BalzacA Harlot High and LowPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wilde's love of French culture was intensified and perhaps even prompted by his reading. Three novels, which were written at the beginning of the nineteenth century by t...Oscar Wilde StendhalScarlet and BlackPrint: Book
1850-1899'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyNotes on the FirthManuscript: Sheet, Unknown
1850-1899'Will you allow me to recommend you the accompanying sonnets? They are by Mr Henley, who wrote the “Hospital Outlines” in this month’s "Cornhill" − poems which have...Robert Louis Stevenson William Ernest HenleyHospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits.Manuscript: Unknown, Probably a proof copy.
1800-1849'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth InchbaldSimple Story, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I was so entirely delighted with that book, and should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Russell LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one day that movements are taking place amon...Thomas Edward Lawrence [n/a] [n/a]newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Will you please give my warm regards to your husband and tell him I have just finished reading the "Rumak" with the greatest possible interest. I think it's simply wonde...Joseph Conrad Jan Tadeusz Zuk-SkarszewskiRumak Swiatowida:karykatura wczorajsza (Swiatowid'...Print: Book
1800-1849'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of ...Maria Edgeworth Thomas ThomsonAnnals of PhilosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Will you send me the second volume of Pattison's essays, if you are not reading it. I have nearly finished the first and will post it to you. I think some of them most i...Gertrude Bell Mark PattisonEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Will you thank Mr Talfourd for the kind present of his pleasant book' [letter to Edward Moxon]Mary Shelley Thomas Noon TalfourdRecollections of a first visit to the Alps, in Aug...Print: Book
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1800-1849		'William Dodd [...] exposed to the full impact of the [eighteenth/nineteenth-century] factory system, found that once he had begun to read books on "several branches of n...William Dodd  Print: Book
1900-1945'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the main currents of Morris's life & the parts that art & ...Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin[paper on life of William Morris]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'Somerset Maugham Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meisters LehrjahrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Willie first read Goethe's "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister" (later the subject of a major essay) in Heidelberg'.Somerset Maugham Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy ...James Hogg John WilsonCity of the Plague, TheManuscript: Unknown


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