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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899This growing interest in Indian India was further whetted by Ruddy's reading of a new novel "Lalun the Bergun, or the Battle of Panipat: A legend of Hindoostan", publishe...Rudyard Kipling Mirza Moorad ‘Gaekwaree’ Alee BegLalun the Beragun or the Battle of Panipat: A lege...Print: Book
1900-1945'He read — Sterne, Sydney Smith's letters, Canning's speeches, and two thrillers: A. E. W. Mason's Konigsmarch and Michael Innes's Lament for a Maker ...'John Buchan Michael InnesLament for a MakerPrint: Book
1700-1799'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... 'William Wordsworth MoschusLament for BionUnknown
1800-1849'... ["A Lamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the Cumberland Dialect"], by [Thomas] Wilkinson, in his own hand, was pasted into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ...Wordsworth FamilyThomas WilkinsonLamentation on the Untimely Death of Roger, in the...Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francesco BaldoviniLamento di cecco da VarlungoUnknown
1800-1849I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. The extracts I had seen of them, were undeniably the ...Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Politian's Lamia'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Nov. 8th. [...] Read Lamia by Keats.' Claire Clairmont John KeatsLamiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ride to Pisa - Keats' poems'Mary Shelley John KeatsLamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes and other poe...Print: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Maria Susanna CumminsLamplighter; Or, an Orphan Girl's Struggles and Tr...Print: Book
1900-1945Q: Did your father read? A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, ... Lancashire Daily PostPrint: Newspaper, Local newspaper
1900-1945Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family? A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday. Q: Who read it? A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... Lancashire Daily PostPrint: Newspaper, local newspaper
1900-1945'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a sub...James Elroy Flecker anonLand and WaterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand ...Margaret Oliphant Laurence OliphantLand of Gilead, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Land of Heart's Desire by W. B. Yeats was read by members of the Club. The parts were distributed among the members as follows and those who read entered very charmingl...members of XII Book ClubWilliam Butler YeatsLand of Heart's DesirePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlLand Und VolkPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two that I have enjoyed lately. George Moore, Ave, Will...Edward Morgan Forster G. L. StracheyLandmarks in French LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'... and I agree with you I could choose no better model than Colvin's admirable Landor.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinLandorPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From letter to Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written in 1889 by the Rev. J. J. Lias, to acco...J. J. Lias Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonagePrint: Unknown


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