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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'After lunch Tub played golf. Dick caddied for him. I read Ivanhoe to the Babs and we went to the Post for stamps.'Verena Pennefather Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusion and chaos. My life at present is a tale of muggi...Gerald Moore Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about the fifth time) "Ivanhoe" and "The Heart of the Mid-...John Mitchel Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is nothing very powerful and striking in it; but it is ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are many more powerful. The subject, in novels, poems, ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and romance. I can well remember the time when, a mere ...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. [...] 'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe [...] 'Saturday June 10th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe....Claire Clairmont Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I tried to read Judith Paris, then Ivanhoe. A note on ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not what Prince Leopold will say to it [the character of Athelstane]. He had a bad cold and Sir Robert Gardiner went to keep him company and read "Ivanhoe" to him...Robert Gardiner Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: 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
1850-1899'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I have only read the first volume. I delight in even ...Harriet Countess Granville Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sibell (1907-2005) between June 1915 and December 1916 ...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book


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