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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teething Children, & some new fashioned Sweet meats fit say...Hester Lynch Thrale [a New York newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Accession of the present King, or about the time of his ...Hester Lynch Thrale [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Psalm 56 v. 3.Elizabeth Lyttelton Psalms, 56:3Unknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710'Elizabeth Lyttelton The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Qu...Print: Book
'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I have lost Sight of them: they celebrated Mr Rudd's Fam...Hester Lynch Thrale 'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'On Dec. 15th [1887] "Owd Roa" was finished for press. My father's note on the poem is: "I read in one of the daily papers of a child saved by a black retriever from a bu...Alfred Tennyson newspaper report on rescue of child by dogPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal (1890-91): 'A sudden attack of influenza had made my father ill again. Despite his growing weakness, his interest in the larger politics...Hallam Tennyson Tithes BillPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's journal, 1890-91: 'May 28th. [1890] G. F. Watts left today, having done a fine portrait of my father [...] I read "The Golden Bough" and the "St...Hallam Tennyson "story of a Balaclava hero"Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an advertisement by, I think, one Melrose in South-Bd stree...Margaret Carlyle Advertisement for TeaPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father: 'While reading an article in the Spectator on blank verse, he observed: "I have been reading in the Sp...Alfred Tennyson article on Keats and WordsworthPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Alfred Tennyson Book of JobPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days: 'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...] 'On Wednesday the 29th we tele...Audrey Tennyson article on colonization of UgandaPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscription on a Stone he saw - which was set up as he then fo...Cornelius Ford [an inscription]Unknown
1700-1799'I must write down the following Epigram while I remember it: somebody saw it written up on the Window of the Devizes Inn. [the epigram is given and she opines] The Puns ... [an epigram]Unknown
1700-1799'[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Quack Med'cines to prevent growing fat, or perhaps to r...Hester Lynch Thrale [ladies memorandum books]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & even now perhaps in popish Countries, mistaken for De...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1700-1799'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like Boy gathering Flow'rs in the Woods & fieds just as t...Alexander Pope  Print: Book
1700-1799'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterboro'.'John Hinchcliffe [poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in Abyssinia eat cuts from the live Beast; yet Mr Coxe &...Hester Lynch Thrale [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia]Print: Book


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