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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke Robert Burns[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley (whose jobs included winding bobbins and working as...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst working as a porter and warehouseman in Manchester'.Samuel Bamford Robert Burnsvolume containing life and writings of BurnsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with composure that excited my own wonder. Perhaps like Bu...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert BurnsTo ruinPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy is the most finished, and excels in simple elegance...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Robert Burns[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert ...Claire Clairmont Robert Burns'Tam O' Shanter'Unknown
1800-1849In journal entry for Sunday 18 November 1821, Claire Clairmont transcribes several lines from 'Tam O'Shanter,' and "Lament for James Earl of Glencairn,' both by Robert ...Claire Clairmont Robert Burns'Lament for James Earl of Glencairn'Unknown
1850-1899'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I see my way to an end, some new game (or perhaps wild go...Robert Louis Stevenson Robert BurnsunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton Robert Burns[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Pattie Stansfield Robert Burns'To a Mouse'Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Pattie Stansfield Robert Burns'To a Mountain Daisy'Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Helen Rawlings Robert Burns'Cotter's Saturday Night'Print: Book
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a paper prepared conjointly with Mrs [?]on Burns as song...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Burns Print: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Robert BurnsPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The storm around might roar and rustle We didna mind the storm a whistle'. Walter Scott Robert BurnsTam o' ShanterUnknown
1700-1799'I shall now fulfil my promise of exhibiting specimens of various sorts of imitation of Johnson's style. In the "Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, 1787", there...James Boswell Robert Burrowes[Essay on Johnson's style]Print: Book
1600-1699In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to...John Gadbury Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book


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