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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numerical order); there are also a few marginal notes in ...Henry Fox William CamdenThe history of the most renowned and victorious pr...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'Thomas Green Thomas MayThe history of the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'Thomas Green Herbert MarshThe history of the politicks of Great Britain and ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after...Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon and Curtius - walk with Shelley - S. read Tasso'.Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, First Earl of ClarendonThe History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his friend Dr. Waddington now entreated him to look through his ponderous an...George Grote George WaddingtonThe History of the ReformationUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gilbert BurnetThe History of the Reformation of the Church of EnPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon and even read part of Burnet's "History of the Reformation" which I esteem a very impartial history, as the author has everywhere treated his subject wi...Thomas Turner Gilbert BurnetThe history of the reformation of the Church of En...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual wild hurried manner [...] consented to play a Sonata...Claire Clairmont William RobertsonThe History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V....Print: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill William SewellThe History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, o...Print: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford Richard JohnsonThe History of The Seven ChampionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'It contains more detailed accounts than anything I ever saw, except Wodrow ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe History of the Suffrings of the Church of Scot...Print: Book
1600-1699'To Westminster-hall and bought, among other books, one of the Life of our Queene. Which I read at home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ that we did nothing but lau...Samuel Pepys John DaunceyThe history of the thrice illustrious Princess Hen...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William LaudThe History of the Troubles and Tryal of The Most ...Print: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to see it. It is entitled ?Napoleon IV? and is about...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonThe History of the United StatesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter RaleighThe History of the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas FullerThe History of the Worthies of EnglandPrint: Book
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1800-1849		?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the deli...Charles Maturin Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book


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