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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for embezzlement: Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the sign of the Goat, in Cheyne-street, near Gower-street,...John Norton  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statements in trial for forgery: Eleanor Castle: "The very day he was taken up, he read the paper at our house... Near two o'clock, in the middle of the day......Edward Lovell  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statements in trial for theft: James Streeter: "...says I, Mich, how did you come by this, I am afraid you did not get it honestly; he persisted in it, that he...James Streeter  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799"W[ordsworth]'s comment to C[oleridge] in 1802 suggests a first reading of Pliny's letters years before ... 'I remeber having the same opinion of Plinys [sic] letters whi...William Wordsworth PlinyEpistolarumPrint: Book
1700-1799"Attacking W[ordsworth]'s 'one-sidedness' in 1840, De Quincey records: 'One of Mrs Radcliffe's romances, viz. 'The Italian,' he had, by some strange accident, read, - rea...William Wordsworth Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799"Christopher Wordsworth Jr. wrote of W[ordsworth]: 'The week before he took his degree he passed his time in reading Clarissa Harlowe.'"William Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799"W[ordsworth] owned and read the French translation of Coxe during his residence in France, 1791-2."William Wordsworth William CoxeLettres de M. William Coxe a M. W. Melmoth sur l'e...Print: Book
1700-1799"[Thomas] Poole read the Appeal in March 1796; writing to Henrietta Warwick on 2 April, he revealed that 'I have lately perused with much delight La Citoyenne Roland.'" Thomas Poole Marie Jeanne Roland de la PlatiereAn Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro...Print: Book
1700-1799" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"Dorothy Wordsworth Marie Jeanne Roland de la PlatiereAn Appeal to Impartial Posterity, by Citizeness Ro...Print: Book
1700-1799" ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'"Dorothy Wordsworth Jean-Baptiste Louvet de CouvrayNarrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Expo...Print: Book
1700-1799'Southey, W[ordsworth] told [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795, "is about publishing an epic poem on the subject of the Maid of orleans. From the specimens I have seen I am ...William Wordsworth Robert SoutheyJoan of ArcManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Lawrence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read "Christian's own Account of the Mutiny on Board his Majesty's Ship Bounty, commanded by Captain Bligh, of which he was the Ringleader" in The Weekly En...William Wordsworth Weekly Entertainer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Clarissa Harlowe was not more interesting [than Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the African Slave-Trade] when I first read it at...Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'William Wordsworth Gilbert WhiteNatural History and Antiquities of SelbornePrint: Book
1700-1799'Three of W[ordsworth]'s translations of Catullus survive from between 1786 and c.1788 ["Death of a Starling" (1786); "Lesbia" (1786); "Septimius and Acme" (1788)] ... he...William Wordsworth CatullusCarminaUnknown
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] copied a brief quotation from Donne's "Death be not proud" into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16 ["Death be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dread...William Wordsworth John DonneHoly Sonnet 10Unknown
1700-1799'In spring 1789 W[ordsworth]translated Horace's Ode to Apollo (Ode I xxxi) with the help of [Christopher] Smart's translation.'William Wordsworth HoraceWorks of Horace. Translated into English Prose, f...Print: Book
1700-1799'W[ordsworth]'s translation of Horace's Ode to the Bandusian Fountain (Ode III xiii) appears in a manuscript dating from his time at Windy Brow in 1794.'William Wordsworth HoraceOdesPrint: Book


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