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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appearance of rejoicing at Sheffield. [He cites lack of cov...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dr Marwick advertises again.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education"...'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'John Clare [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...'John Marsh [Anon]The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell youPrint: Book
1800-1849'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my Tynemouth illness.'Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayThe Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. TitmarshPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu...Jack Ashley Jack LondonThe Iron HeelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Robert Michael BallantyneThe Iron HorsePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent George Bernard ShawThe Irrational KnotPrint: Book
1850-1899'In February [1855] my father "translated aloud three Idylls of Theocritus, Hylas, The Island of Cos, and The Syracusan Women."' Alfred Tennyson Theocritus The Island of CosPrint: Book
1900-1945'Write your fiction in the tone of this very excellent article if you like. Place it in S. Italy if that will help.'Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Island of TyphoeusManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The new edition of the "Island Ph[arisee]" arrived during the crisis of horrors [severe gout and the debilitating effects of the then new colchicine treatment] and I tac...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Island PhariseesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have the complete text of "The Isle" in my possession.[...]. The short passage [on Giovanni de Procida, 13th century Sicilian doctor and instigator of the Sicilian Ves...Joseph Conrad Norman DouglasThe Isle of TyphoeusManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Isle of Wight by Anne Maria Sargeant A light so varied bursts upon my view, ...'Bowly groupAnne Maria SargentThe Isle of WightUnknown
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
1700-1799Finished the second volume of Mrs Radcliffe's 'Italian'. She is the best writer in her way of anybody I [have?] heard of. There is one scene in this volume which cannot b...Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book
1700-1799We got the last volume of the Italian, I think it does not equal the former productionJoseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe ItalianPrint: Book


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