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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945‘I think we are quite near [departure for] the front—the fighting line, but at least I have control enough of my mind to think very little of this. The only thought t...Ivor Bertie Gurney Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1800-1849'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'Reginald Heber Felicia Dorothea BrowneWar and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fi...Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Francis E. Pollard David Lloyd GeorgeWar Memoirs of David Lloyd GeorgePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).' Gerald Moore Henry N. BrailsfordWar of Steel and GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Later in my teens, on a first visit to London, I bought for one-and-six in the Charing Cross Road, a red-covered copy of "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon". it was my ...Charles Causley Siegfried SassoonWar PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Montague David EderWar Shock: The Psycho-Neuroses in War Psychology a...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which gave us the facts of Peacock's life & a general acc...Charles Evans Thomas Love PeacockWar Song of Dinas Vawr, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage WallisWar Time Tree FellingsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Reginald Robson Anthony TrollopeWarden, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'm reading now the causes and conditions that brought...Gerald SamsonWarning Light of AsiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops and the Relief of Derry -and it was therefore natural...Thomas A. Jackson Thomas Babington MacaulayWarren HastingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'On his arrival in Poland Conrad knew from our contemporary literature only "Popioly" and "Panna Mery". During his two-month stay he devoured almost all that was worth re...Joseph Conrad Stanislaw WyspianskiWarszawiankaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo...Leslie Stephen Richard Grant WhiteWashington AdamsPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the morning a little "Inferno". James's "Washington Square" (his first, American manner) and Turgeneff's [sic] "Fumée"; but Russian books are always a slight effort t...Ronald Storrs Henry JamesWashington SquarePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -- and their idol Goethe -- I have also read Wedderbu...George Gordon Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webster ... Amongst the ingredients of this volume I was ...George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsPrint: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know when -- I like it as much as I hate Patronage and Wa...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."John Ruskin Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefore mention that my prime favourites while at Tait's w...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book


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