√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 '[whilst Mrs Ward suffered her last illness] her son and her daughters took turns in reading to her the poets that she loved'. Mary Augusta Ward Print : Book1850-1899 '[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, - for each figure was motionless and bright, & the sm... Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime of the Ancient mariner, The Print : Book1850-1899 '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wh... Francis Thompson The Globe Print : Newspaper1800-1849 '[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, and then stopped for six, -- finishing it in three mor... Harriet Martineau William Godwin Caleb Williams Print : Book1800-1849 '[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].' William Lovett William Paley Print : Book1700-1799 '[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design to translate the "Lusiad", of the merit of which he... Samuel Johnson Luis Vaz de Camoens Lusiads Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Sir Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Benjamin Disraeli unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Edward Bulwer Lytton unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Samuel Johnson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[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 Addison unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Richard Steele unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Oliver Goldsmith unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Ralph Waldo Emerson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll James Russell Lowell unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Henry Wadsworth Longfellow unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Bronte unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively that he had already read it while staying with Edwar... Thomas Hardy William Watson Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems Print : Book1700-1799 '[William] Godwin, no mean judge of a novel's excellence, could not help lamenting the fewness
of [Elizabeth Inchbald's] productions. On reading the MS. of "Nature and ... William Godwin Elizabeth Inchbald Nature and Art Manuscript : Unknown
