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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference fo...Elizabeth Hamilton Archibald Allison[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference fo...Elizabeth Hamilton William Paley[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and without affecting to become a Persian scholar, she spo...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][oriental literature]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to some sensible female, who had an interest in the su...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella Stuart; and, either to extend her knowledge, or amuse...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][Scottish history]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been bet...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][scholastic divinity essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton William Shakespeare[History Plays]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][A history of England]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton HomerIliadPrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept...Elizabeth Hamilton William HamiltonBlind Harry's WallacePrint: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem, which she one evening read with a smiling countena...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth Hamilton[poem - 'Is that Auld Age']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][Classical latin works in translation]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][modern works on Classical subjects]Print: Book
1700-1799'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objecti...Mrs G- Elizabeth HamiltonLetters of a Hindoo RajahManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objecti...Mrs G- Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern Philosophers Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][books chosen by Mrs Marshall]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Mrs Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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