√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]... Mary Godwin Robert Paltock The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel Defoe The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 '[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn... Henry Cockton The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventrilo... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am deep in ''Dean Stanley's Life'' and I like it so much.' Emma Darwin R. E. & G. G. Prothero & Bradley The Life and Correspondence of Arthur Penrhyn Stan... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Ryland The Life and Correspondence of John Foster Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside
Hayley's A... Elizabeth Barrett Margaret Baron-Wilson The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis Print : Book1900-1945 'I am very glad to hear that you are getting to like Jason: I agree with you that the whole
description of Medea — glorious character — going out by night, and of her s... Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Life and Death of Jason: A Poem Print : Book1900-1945 Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's wife (opening 'Now, said she, I am going to rest for... Edward Morgan Forster John Bunyan The Life and Death of Mr Badman Print : Book1900-1945 Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of John Cox, from chapter 19 of John Bunyan's Life and D... Edward Morgan Forster John Bunyan The Life and Death of Mr Badman Print : Book1600-1699 'And there finding them all at church, and thinking they dined as usual at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book in my hand (the Life of Cardinal Wolsey, wrote by his... Samuel Pepys George Cavendish The life and death of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinal ...... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading the scientific letters, and in almost every one there is some characteristic bit which charms one.' Emma Darwin Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin Print : Book1850-1899 'We read ''Severn's Life'' which does very well. He is a rather foolish man, and talks of Keats' dying of the persecution of his enemies when it was consumption...' Emma Darwin William Sharp The Life and Letters of J. Severn Print : Book1900-1945 2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's
sister-in-law] was announced.' Virginia Woolf George Otto Trevelyan The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Print : Book1850-1899 'Matheson is reading ''Macauley's Life'' to me, and his letters are delightful.' Emma Darwin George Otto Trevelyan The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley Print : Book1850-1899 Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own life. MS dates of reading up to 1921 and list of 8 m... George Otto Trevelyan Conyers Middleton The life and letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero Print : Book1700-1799 John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon," and if I have not been quite so much delighted a... John Playfair The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Vaughan The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D. Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Augustus Dillon-Lee The Life and Opinions of Sir Richard Maltravers, a Print : Book1700-1799 'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot but call them; for I am told that the third and fourt... Samuel Richardson Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Print : Book
