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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have just finished the Lady of the Lake. – I read all the notes. I have also read these plays of Shakespeare. John. Richard 2d. Henry 4th & I am now reading Henr...William Henry Fox Talbot William Shakespeare2 Henry IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'To-day I ... prepare myself for leaving England. I read, whilst [here] the "Ingoldsby Legends" entire, Second Part "King Henry IV," and more cursorily "Midsummer ...Wainwight Merrill William Shakespeare2 Henry IVPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am going on with my reading of Shakespeare's historical plays, and yesterday I came on the murder of Humphrey, Duke of Gloster, and the death of Beaufort; and Tennyson...Fanny Allen William Shakespeare2 Henry VIPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 2 Kings, 1:18-19, prefaced by 'Naaman to the Prophet Elisha, after he had cured him of his Lepr... 2 Kings 5: 18-19Print: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday evening [was occupied] with looking through Dickson's Fa...George Eliot Theocritus22nd IdyllPrint: Book
1900-1945Tues. Sent letter to Findlay. Fine day. Nil by mail. Read 2535 Mayfair by Frank Richardson.'William Thomas Frank Richardson2535 MayfairPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is clear to me that mesmerism is not to be poo-pood, but diligently & reverently investigated'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Harriet Martineau2nd and 3rd Letters on MesmerismPrint: Unknown
1800-1849"Perhaps Picturesque is somewhat synonymous to the word Taste, which we should think improperly applied to Homer & Milton, but very well to Prior or Pope. I suspect that ...William Blake William Gilpin3 Essays on Picturesque BeautyPrint: Book
1900-1945‘I am back in the Trenches now and my address is altered as you notice. Thank you for Lawrence offer but cloth books are so bulky and impossible out here. I have sent...Isaac Rosenberg David Herbert Lawrence3 Poems: Service of all the Dead; Meeting among th...Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson Virgil8th EcloguePrint: Book
1850-1899Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critic...Arnold Bennett Marie Corelli? The Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1700-1799" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"Lady Eleanor Butler Davila? [ History of the French Civil Wars]Unknown
1700-1799" Read Davila." "Read...and Davila"Lady Eleanor Butler Davila? [ History of the French Civil Wars]Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved.

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Howard Smith Francis Thompson?"At Lords"Print: Book
1800-1849'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'Thomas Carlyle Roger Ascham?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'Unknown
1900-1945'Perfectly fine and calm again. Father read us the finished article [on Trade Unions] to our great admiration. Then we did Italian and I read Sicilian history and a littl...Gertrude Bell ?Edward Augustus ?Freeman?A History of Sicily from the earliest timesPrint: Book
1900-1945 I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done. Arnold Bennett James Hanley?A Passion before DeathManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:] ''We found them here reading Mosheim. They are in the second volume, wh...Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall familyJohann Lorenz von Mosheim?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, fr...Print: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Emil Otto?An Elementary German GrammarPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read Sir A. Lyall's "Essays", thanks to you! and reread them for they are so so good that I can't tear myself away from them. I want you to read one or two on religion...Gertrude Bell Alfred C. Lyall?Asiatic studies: religious and social : being a s...Print: Book


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