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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ...Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von KotzebueLeontine de BlondheimPrint: Book
1800-1849From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten...Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
1800-1849From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.Anne Lister Edward YoungThe complaint, or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '14th [June]. Read part of Oedipus Coloneus [sic].'Alfred Tennyson Sophocles Oedipus ColoneusPrint: Book
1800-1849From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848: '19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Ferdinand, Count FathomPrint: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, full of strange vigour and remarkable in many ways; d...Robert Browning Robert BrowningPreface, The Ring and the BookUnknown
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'November. The Hollies, Clapham Common. I have sent the "Grail" to be [italics]printed[end italics] [...] I r...Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennysonpoem on the Holy GrailManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899From Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Vol II, pp.307-309):

'"Kingsley, in a letter to Mrs Gaskell, rejoices that he had never expre...		Charles Kingsley Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (Vol II, pp.307-309):

'"Kingsley, in a letter to Mrs Gaskell, rejoices that he had never expre...		Charles Kingsley Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke Thomas Otway Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		From Anne Isabella Milbanke's reminiscences of her father: '"Of Shakespeare, Otway, Dryden, he was a devoted admirer, pointing out or reciting to me their finest passa...Ralph Milbanke John Dryden Print: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, w...Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1800-1849From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were children at Paris was the arrival of a huge parcel, whic...Anne Isabella Thackeray Sir Henry ColeThe Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Bo...Print: Book
1900-1945From Appendix ('Biographical Outlines of Persons Most Frequently Mentioned') to The Diary of Virginia Woolf vol.4: 'Reading V[irginia] W[oolf]'s A Room of One's Own fired...Ethel Smyth Virginia WoolfA Room of One's OwnPrint: Book
1800-1849From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847): '[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choice of, which he would take care to send to me [for re...John Barrow De GuignesHistory of the Dutch Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article of Miss Alcott's, she [Martineau] says, "Transcenden...Harriet Martineau Louisa May AlcottTranscendental Wild Oats (article)Print: Unknown
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Alexander Pope'works'Print: Book
1700-1799From chapter entitled 'Madame d'Arblay': 'Whilst her mother read Pope's works and Pitt's AEneid with her eldest daughter Esther, Fanny [Burney] sat by and listened, ...Esther Burney and daughter (also Esther)Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1800-1849From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'Felicia Hemans Friedrich von SchillerunknownPrint: Book


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