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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861) ?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.? John Ruskin William MorrisThe Defence of GueneverePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of Morris...'Clive Staples Lewis William MorrisThe Defense of Guenevere and other PoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1850-1899'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the Funeral Poets, I made a dash for the garden...Then ...Edmund Gosse Samuel BoyseThe DeityPrint: Book
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him w...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him w...Mr Hollingsworth [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him w...Mr Dobb [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him w...Mr Ward [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'Whilst I was abroad the proof-sheets of "the Descent of Man" were sent out to me to read.'Henrietta Litchfield Charles DarwinThe Descent of ManPrint: Page proofs
1900-1945Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256.Vernon Lee Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Se...Print: Book
1900-1945'Before starting this [ie Macaulay's "History of England", v. 2] I read in a library copy two of F. W. Bain's Indian Tales "The Descent of the Sun" & "The Heifer of the...Clive Staples Lewis Francis William BainThe Descent of the SunPrint: Book
1900-1945I am just re-reading Gertrude Bell's 'Syria', and comparing her route with ours. She however, travelled with three baggage mules, two tents, and three servants: so ...Freya Stark Gertrude BellThe Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and ...Print: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Country's pride When once destroy'd can never be supplie...Robert Sharp Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 19 December 1847: 'My dear Browning do you know the German transcendental writers at all -- especially [italics]Fichte[end italics...Joseph Arnould Johann Gottlieb FichteThe Destination of ManPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson John FiskeThe Destiny of Man Viewed in the Light of His Orig...Print: Book
1800-1849Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde...John Ruskin George Gordon Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron'Julia George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: UnknownUnknown
1900-1945Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more rain. I tried walking along the bank [...] Then I came...Virginia Woolf Stephen SpenderThe Destructive ElementPrint: Book


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