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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 September 1800: 'Read Boswell in the house in the morning, and after dinner under the bright yellow leaves of the orchard...Dorothy Wordsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading Boswell's Life of Johnson which is very entertaining; I never saw Johnson's Journey to the Hebrides or Western Islands, I suppose it is an amusing Bo...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recd a parcel from William last night. I was at the time reading Boswell's Life of Johnson, but it was immediately laid down, for the entertainment I anticipated, from h...Robert Sharp James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biograph...Thomas Carter James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found the following passage, which reminded me of a resolv...Donald William Alers Hankey James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 1820]Claire Clairmont James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have been looking over it, and do no...Elizabeth Barrett James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...] 		Arnold Joselin James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) '...also dipped often into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Being entirely made up of conversation I don't think it is a book to be read continuously, tho' it is very g...Clive Staples Lewis James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Fulke Greville's copy of Boswell [Life of Johnson] stands out among individual copies annotated by readers who had known Boswell or Johnson or other members of their cir...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson discusses annotations of unidentified male reader in 1793 copy of Boswell's Life of Johnson; this reader, referred to in annotations as "Mr L", known to be ...Mr L. James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of text, in his copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Jo...John Gibson Lockhart James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the Life of Johnson] ... goes to some pains to record a...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likely to take a small piece of meat as a large one, when...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i...Fulke Greville James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dipped into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Johnson pronounces Hume either mad or a liar...'Thomas Green James BoswellThe life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Print: Book


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