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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throws such a clear light on the male character. C. says ...Frances Stevenson George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a less than frugal luncheon (no ice aboard) I made an attempt to read "The Egoist" (a tattered copy of which lay on the desk) but gave it up and lay, practically f...Ronald Storrs George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have only just arrived here: the last ten days having been occupied in reading "The Egoist" in the Orderly Room at Moore [Barracks, Shorncliffe]. It was my sad fat...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I have finished and laid by "The Egoist". I see now that Meredith belongs to that class of novelists with whom I do not usually get on so well (e.g. Dickens), who cr...Charles Hamilton Sorley George MeredithThe EgoistPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'. Claire Clairmont John Fletcher and Philip MassingerThe Elder BrotherPrint: Book
1900-1945'This ["The Eldest Son"] is extremely fine [...]. At the end of each act I got up and walked for a while in a sort of exultation over the sheer art of the thing.' After a...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Eldest SonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. EuclidAnne Lister Euclid The ElementsPrint: Book
1800-1849between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may somet...Anne Lister Euclid The ElementsPrint: Book
1800-184918,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellThe elements of curves: designed for the use of st...Print: Book
1850-1899Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b...Anna Blunden John RuskinThe Elements of DrawingPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle James WoodThe Elements of OpticsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hyman HurwitzThe Elements of the Hebrew LanguagePrint: Book
1800-1849'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'.Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan Laetitia Elizabeth LandonThe Emerald RingUnknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 5 April 1849:

'The Cornhill books are still our welcome and congenial resource while Anne [sister, in terminal decline] i...		Charlotte Bronte and familyAlexander HarrisThe Emigrant FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] mainly 1804-1811; a few notes added up to 1818-1819, one note is as late as 1826 or laterSamuel Taylor Coleridge Marcus Aurelius AntoninusThe Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook James LawrenceThe Empire of the NairsPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Encyclopedia BritanicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 6th November. ?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is very interesting; it is quite a declaration of belief ...Gerald Moore J. Maynard KeynesThe End of Laissez FairePrint: Book


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