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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the...William Edwin Adams Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, he "continued reading for half an hour", the booksell...King George III Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose...Robert Southey Tom PaineThe Rights of Man. Part the Second Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of t...Elizabeth Blackburn Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the Ancient Mariner aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerUnknown
1800-1849''Wednesday Oct. 5th. [...] Read Political Justice Shelley reads aloud the Ancient Mariner. & Mad [...] Mother.' ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22, Cintra Avenue. 17th Sept. 1942 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. A card of greetings was read from Janet Rawlings, Beth and Victor Alexander.<...		Bruce Dilks Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerUnknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Mr father could not have written the Ancient Mariner at sixty, yet who will say that his genius declined? The Genius was there as mighty as ever, but the frame could n...Hartley Coleridge Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning's Ring and Book ... the President de Brosse's delig...Henry James Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished, and was reading at night Browning's "Ring and the ...Alfred Tennyson Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' George Eliot (pseud) Honore de BalzacThe Rise and Fall of Cesar BirotteauPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have spoken of his affection for Dickens. Trollope he liked. Thackeray I think not over much, though he had a due regard for such creations as Major Pendennis. Mer...Joseph Conrad William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas LaphamPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson John Lothrop MotleyThe Rise of the Dutch RepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton John Lothrop MotleyThe Rise of the Dutch RepublicPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "Sept. 21 1914 Aloud to C[aroline]"; "Dec 30 1920 with...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyThe rise of the Dutch republic: a historyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet?...Gerald Moore Lady GregoryThe Rising of the MoonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The Rivall Ladys" all the way and find it a most pleasant and fine-writ play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadiesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadysPrint: Book


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