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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: " 'Good' sd. Mr. Crisp ... the name of Codger occasi...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Charles Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Frances Burney Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partiality to overbiass his Judgment I am sure, and he likes ...Hester Lynch Thrale Frances BurneyThe WitlingsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mon. Nil [i.e., no post]. Sent a PC home. Read "The Witness for the Defence" by AEW Mason.'William Thomas A. E. W. MasonThe Witness for the DefencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton anonThe WizardPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies [n/a]The WizardPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard...Samuel Smiles CampbellThe Wizard's WarningPrint: Book
1900-1945'I only read weekly magazines, like the "Woman". I prefer sewing and knitting.' The WomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy scene which would apply to the present ministers.' [...] 'Sunday March 1...Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman HaterPrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I've been reading Wilkie Collins: Fosco is very great, very great; I envy Fosco, I had rather been Fosco than R.L.S.'Robert Louis Stevenson Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1900-1945Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ...Newman Flower Hall CaineThe Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction)Print: Book
1850-1899'Grant Allen’s”[The] Woman Who Did”, c’est un livre mort. Gr.[ant]Allen is a man of inferior intelligence and his work is not art in any sense. “[The] Woman Who Did” ha...Joseph Conrad Grant AllenThe Woman Who DidPrint: Book
1900-1945When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and read the title-story. After that 'The Rainbow'—if ...Arnold Bennett D.H. LawrenceThe Woman who Rode AwayPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's prize or the Tamer tam'd by Beaumont & Fletcher.' Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'dPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit without money of Beaumont & Fletcher.'Claire Clairmont Francis Beaumont and John FletcherThe Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'dPrint: Book
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Woman's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Strangely enough--about five months ago--when turning over the last page of the "Wonderful Visit" in the full impresion of the suggestive charm and full realism of that ...Joseph Conrad H.(Herbert) G. (George) WellsThe Wonderful VisitPrint: Book


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