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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry. October 20th, 1831: "Was in Mr. Boyd’s room before nine. Heard him say over the passages in the Prometheus, & read Gregory. He told me that he had a great ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus OrationsPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 19th, 1831: "He showed me his Benedictine edition of Gregory. It is in high preservation, & very beautiful. I will get one like it, whenever I ha...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus Orations against JulianPrint: Book
1850-1899Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Estournelles, Alfred Lyall, and Godfrey Webb, all of us...Wilfrid Blunt and guests unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
1700-1799Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think.Gertrude Savile (Sir) John VanbrughA Journey to London, being part of a comedy...Print: Book
1800-1849Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd.John Horrocks Ainsworth James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899Ditto marks under the words: 'March at S. Martin's Lodge Scarborough'. Also, 'part of' is written before the title 'Lectures on the Creed'.Sarah Good Elizabeth WordsworthIllustrations of the CreedPrint: Book
1850-1899Ditto marks underneath the words: 'June (-July with Winnie and Edith)'Sarah Good William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Johnson prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Coleridge Communion ServicePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: ' ... he sits with me till ...Christopher Wordsworth prayersUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by Wil...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas ClarksonPortraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of t...Print: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his...William and Dorothy WordsworthLady Beaumont[letter]Manuscript: Letter


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