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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Has thou read John Foster's Life and Correspondence? It is deeply interesting; generally speaking, I am not addicted to the reading of correspondence, but his is no pe...Eliza Ellis Jonathan Edwards RylandThe Life and Correspondence of John FosterPrint: Book
1850-1899'Church Lessons or Gladius Ecclesiae'Sarah Good Jonathan Holt TitcombChurch Lessons for Young Churchmen; or, Gladius Ec...Print: Book
1900-1945'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1...Arnold Bennett Joris Karl HuysmansLes Soeurs VatardsPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read su...Leonard Woolf Joris Karl HuysmansA ReboursPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906: 'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is one immense sea of hills [...] I walk out onto these...Leonard Woolf Joris Karl Huysmans Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicised me [...] In or outside Chartres you can find every...Edward Morgan Forster Joris-Karl HuysmansLa CathedralePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read till Dejeuner; sat opposite the Espieux. Afterwards finished the "Cathédral[e]" and talked to M. de Rival. Played chess with the bearded gentleman, finished "Paris"...Gertrude Bell Joris-Karl HuysmansLa Cathédrale Print: Book
1900-1945'[...] two or three times a week after dinner we got out the chessmen and board and spent a couple of hours playing through the games in Capablanca's book. We played ever...Joseph Conrad José Raul CapablancaMy Chess Career or Chess FundamentalsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have finally decided to come north tomorrow at 2.15. I don't like not to be there — I can read Strzygowski all the way in the train, pace you! I shall come back ...Gertrude Bell Josef StrzygowskiunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joseph BeaumontSome Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry Mo...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "...Hester Thrale Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form
1800-1849'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart...Thomas Frost Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books
1800-1849
1850-1899		'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th...Mary Smith Joseph Addison Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaJoseph AddisonworksPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ...Hugh Miller Joseph Addison Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which included a huge collection of "drunken father deathbed c...Janet Hitchman Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Rose Macaulay's] library comprised chiefly old tomes from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which she read and re-read with absorbed delight, from Hak...Rose Macaulay Joseph Addison[probably The Spectator]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers bound as volume?
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel...William Robertson Nicoll Joseph AddisonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian ReligionAdam Mackie Joseph AddisonEvidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book


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