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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.Sydney Smith Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]: "'I recollect reading a book, called the Se...Henry Cooke Richard JohnsonThe Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
    Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced t...		Dorothea Taylor Celia FremlinThe Seven Chars of ChelseaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Frensham, Northcourt Avenue. 13th Sept. 1940
Howard R. Smith in the Chair.
[...]
7. F. E. Pollard commenced the main business of the...		Dorothea Taylor Celia FremlinThe Seven Chars of ChelseaPrint: Book
1800-1849From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and ru...John Heaton John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1850-1899[checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again...Chester Armstrong John RuskinThe Seven Lamps of ArchitecturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a...Derek Davies T.E. LawrenceThe Seven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Much T. E. Lawrence talk whom I knew slightly and always thought a bore and a bounder and a prig.... Storrs [Sir Ronald, an official in the British Foreign and Colon...Henry Channon Thomas Edward LawrenceThe Seven Pillars of WisdomPrint: Book
1850-1899'I've read the "Seven Seas" and Jessie has used the scent (after heroic struggles with Kipling's diction and the glass stopper)and we are full of gratitude. Both things...Joseph Conrad Rudyard KiplingThe Seven SeasPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 17 August 1800: 'Wm read us The Seven Sisters on a stone.'William Wordsworth William WordsworthThe Seven SistersUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842: 'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, I shd say distinctively, -- and once thought, -- b...Elizabeth Barrett Mary HowittThe Seven TemptationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading -- pray who may be the Sexagenarian -- whose gossip...George Gordon Lord Byron Rev. William BeloeThe Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary L...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with mingled joy and disgust. It's a fine conception, but oh ...Edward Morgan Forster A. Felix WedgwoodThe Shadow of a TitanPrint: Book
1900-1945'I wouldn't throw a doubt on his [Edward Garnett's] judgement but I understand he has been lately crying up [through his review in "The Nation" ] two books of which one (...Joseph Conrad E.F. WedgwoodThe Shadow of a TitanPrint: Book
1850-1899'There is rather a nice article of Colvin?s in this "Macmillan".'Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney ColvinThe Shadow of Death
1900-1945'With Cockerell to Parkstone to see Alfred Russel Wallace, the Grand Old Man of Science ... He complimented me on my pamphlet, "The Shame of the XIXth Century" and expres...Alfred Russel Wallace Wilfrid Scawen BluntThe Shame of the Nineteenth Century: A Letter Addr...Print: Pamphlet
1850-1899'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.George Eliot [pseud.] George MeredithThe Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian EntertainmentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wrote this paragraph.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby "For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper


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