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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I read it for duty's sake, without taking as much inter...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Malcolm[possibly] Government of India, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Louis Ginguene[possibly] Histoire litteraire d'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Voltaires Romans. S. reads Lucretius ... talks with Clare'.Mary Godwin Voltaire (pseud.)[possibly] Romans et contesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley goes alone to the Glacier of Boison - I stay at home - read several tales of Voltaire'Mary Godwin Voltaire (pseud.)[possibly] Romans et contesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In as far as regards Maga I consider Lockhart blameless so many others having represented me in a far more ludicrous light witness the long Noctes's in the Newcastle Mag...James Hogg [possibly] the 'Edinburgh Advertiser'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myself in reading the "History of the Church". Was parti...Harriet Wynne [possibly] Eusebius[possibly] The History of the Church from Christ t...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticking, as I always do, in a Zola.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert Bridges, ed.[possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in Engl...Print: Book
1900-1945'When we were allowed to write post cards home on the 6th Oct 1914 (first time) Frau Braun [wife of the German camp commander] did the censoring, and as the Frau was not ...unknown unknown[Post cards written by officer POWs]Manuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'Meeting held at 219, Kings Road. 15th October 1942. Dorothea Taylor in the chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
2. The secret...		Margaret Dilks Dyson[postcard declining an invitation to address the X...Manuscript: Postcard
1900-1945'I received a card from the war in France from Lieutenant E. R. Jones, who is on service out there, with the few words ... "I am quite well".' Anne Jenkins E. R. Jones[postcard]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his wa...Richard Sharp unknown[poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various "officials" taken from the German p...Douglas Lyall Grant unknown unknown[POW camp publication]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [unknown][prayer book]Print: Book
1800-1849Bro [Barrett's eldest brother, Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett] read prayers. Afterwards he read Lord John Russell?s speech on Reform, in the midst of which, I who am int...Edward Moulton-Barrett [prayers]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][prayer]Print: Book
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg Walter Scott[pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Ho...Manuscript: presumably in MS
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginning to end and his hints are most rational - these l...James Hogg William Roscoe[pre-publication comments on Hogg's 'The Hunting o...Manuscript: presumably in MS
'[from Bennet Langton's collection of 1780 Johnsoniana, passed to Boswell] Of the Preface to Capel's "Shakspeare", he said, "If the man would have come to me, I would hav...Samuel Johnson Capel[Preface to edition of Shakespeare]Print: Book
1700-1799'Oct. 25. Wednesday. I went with the Prior to St. Cloud, to see Dr. Hooke.—We walked round the palace, and had some talk.—I dined with our whole company at the Monastery....Samuel Johnson John Dryden[preface to his 'Poetical Miscellanies', vol. 3]Print: Book
1900-1945'[letter from M. Jusserand to Mrs Ward] 'I spent yesternight a most charming evening reading your essay [on the Brontes]. Shall I confess that I feel with Kingsley, havin...M. Jusserand Mary Augusta Ward[prefaces to Haworth edition of the Brontes' novel...Print: Book


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