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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": "Little Women", "Good Wives", "What Katy Did", "Avon...Mary Lakeman Mark TwainTom SawyerPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott adapts one line from Henry Fielding's 'Tom Thumb the Great'.Walter Scott Henry FieldingTom Thumb the GreatUnknown
1800-1849I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse eno...Elizabeth Barrett BeverleyTombs of the ProphetsPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 16-17 November 1792: 'I send the epitaph which at present is inscribed upon one of the cankerd sides. Perhaps the production ...Robert Southey Tombstone epitaphPrint: tomb
1900-1945I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. . . . In my opinion the three best contributions, in...Arnold Bennett Geoffrey LapageTommy FidlerManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the hang of the last part.' Arnold Bennett H.G. WellsTono BungayPrint: Book, proofs of novel
1900-1945'Church parade over, the day was before us for what we liked ... Jack Hinchcliffe would come across and sit outside the tent chatting and reading the paper before d...Geoffrey Ratcliff Husbands Herbert George WellsTono BungayPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "Fireside Travels".'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles LeverTony ButlerPrint: Book
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the ...Gabriel Harvey CiceroTopicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many years ago, I walked with my poor brothers James & Mart...Sarah Harriet Burney Horatio SmithTor HillPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud'George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrTorso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der AltenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper came out under difficulties this week, not being able t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different chantres".'John Cole PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".'John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents of the original where, in the season, they were const...John Cole Richard PhillipsTourPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.'John Ruskin Jeremias GotthelfTour de JacobPrint: Book


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