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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph NicolsonThe History and Antiquities of the Counties of Wes...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph NicolsonThe History and Antiquities of the Counties of Wes...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840: 'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on the subject -- & I will still write.'Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HorneThe History of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841: 'Before I forget again .. have you looked into the "History of a flirt"? The name may daunt you -- but the wri...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Charlotte Susan Maria BuryThe History of a Flirt: Related by HerselfPrint: Book
1850-1899'I say your pavement is d−d jolly.'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinThe History of a PavementPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample sat...James Lackington Antoine-Joseph PernetyThe History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkla...Print: Book
1900-1945'The Squire of Bijeno was a reader. We spent the evening over the history of Alexander and over '"Memoirs of the Boxer Rising", translated into Persian from the Fre...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon]The History of AlexanderPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'Elizabeth Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'Samuel Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America...Anne Lutton William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29-30 October 1793: 'I have laid down Gillies to write to you the third letter in one fortnight. thank yourself for the intru...Robert Southey John GilliesThe History of Ancient GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overj...Robert Southey John GilliesThe History of Ancient GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843: 'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are justified in reproaching my ignorance --- and I d...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BewickThe History of British Birds (extracts)Print: Book
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1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke The History of Captain FreneyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Learnt to play those Games which are wrote down in the abbreviations in the "History of Chess".'Joseph Hunter Lambe RobertThe History of ChessPrint: Book
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1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton S.J. Alvaro SemedoThe History of ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read over the "History of Chivalry", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound in it. I cannot say that it is very amusing or instru...Robert Sharp Charles MillsThe History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its TimPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no doubt but he treats it in a proper manner; - This is a ...Robert Sharp Charles MillsThe History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Tim...Print: Book
1900-1945One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...Robert Stark Henry Thomas BuckleThe History of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book


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