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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...Gertrude Bell Mary GilliesThe Voyage of the "Constance": A Tale of the Polar...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The last words unveiling the mystery of the Erebus and Terror expedition were brought home and disclosed to the world by Sir Leopold M’Clintock in his book "The Voyage...Joseph Conrad Leopold M'ClintockThe Voyage of the 'Fox' in the Arctic Seas: A Narr...Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle.Edward Morgan Forster Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'You may as well say, which is a truth, that I do read bi[o]graphy and memoirs. History has a fascination for me. Naval, military, political'. [The following was delete...Joseph Conrad Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from...Lytton Strachey Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian [Stephen] had asked her to tell me how much he'd lik...Adrian Stephen Virginia WoolfThe Voyage OutPrint: Book
1600-1699'I went to the Temple and there spent my time in a bookseller's shop, reading in a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &c., where was very good reading.'Samuel Pepys Adam OleariusThe voyages and travels of the ambassadors from th...Print: Book
1900-1945'Fri. Nil [i.e., no post]. Read The Vultures by Merriman.'William Thomas Henry Seton MerrimanThe VulturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which she had begged the perusal. She is (as I am) pleased ...Miss H. Hector MacneilThe Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Wi...Print: Book
1900-1945'Took Sommy's watch to Asprey's after lunch. Finished "The Wages of Sin."'Verena Vera Pennefather Lucas MaletThe Wages of SinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wrote to Clara & thanked for flowers & book & gave account of birthday. Finished Wall of Partition.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Florence Louisa BarclayThe Wall of PartitionPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of Why', an enjoyable fantasy about the plots of a cat...Victor Sawdon Pritchett G.E. FarrowThe Wallypug of WhyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849

[Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ever read.'

Fanny Allen Frances D'ArblayThe WandererPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb's attempt to stab herself at a p...George Gordon Lord Byron Frances BurneyThe Wanderer, or Female DifficultiesUnknown
1900-1945'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'Vita Sackville-West Helen WaddellThe Wandering ScholarsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fri. Read America the War by Hugo Münsterberg. Roulette +1.50 for Sat.'William Thomas Hugo MünsterbergThe War and AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War Cry when she was thirteen ..."Annabel Huth Jackson The War CryPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The first instalment of your story in the PMM ["Pall Mall Magazine"] opens the year brilliantly. How good you are in presenting the human interest of a story in terms of...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G.(George) Wells The War in the AirPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughoutVernon Lee Henry Noel BrailsfordThe war of steel and gold: a study of the armed pe...Print: Book
1900-1945'Read Kipling's "Diversities", Steevans "India", Wells "War [of the Worlds]" "Dynamiter" and a little Graham Wallas and Metchnikhoff, but with fatigue and unease.'Ronald Storrs Herbert George WellsThe War of the WorldsPrint: Book


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