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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read over again that part of Say's second volume which r...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayEconomie politiquePrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading Smith's "Wealth of Nations" until 8.'George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore [family's country residence] 'Rose at 7. Read some ...George Grote and sister German BiblePrint: 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
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.'Ellen Heaton John RuskinModern Painters I and IIPrint: Book
1850-1899From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Au...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1500-1599From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordinarily studious and industrious; for when other boyes ...William Gouge [unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899From Thomas Wilson's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'He came into my room one day looking for any new book to feed upon: he took down one by Stevenson called P...Alfred Tennyson StevensonPraying and WorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 3rd, 1863. Saturday. We drove to Farringford [...] Drawing-room tea [...] I wandered to the book-...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849From William Allingham's 'Reminiscences' of Tennyson (1863-64): 'Oct. 4th [1863] I walked over alone to Farringford [...] Tennyson at luncheon [...]we went down and wa...Alfred Tennyson William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them ... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 April 1846: 'I cannot resist writing to express to you the satisfaction, as well as instruction, which I have gained from reading the ...G. C. Lewis George GroteA History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)Print: Book
1800-1849G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847: 'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were so good as to send me. I have since read it with gr...G. C. Lewis George GroteLetters from SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"G. H. Hardy Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonHaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Lewes to Alfred Tennyson, 18 June 1877: 'We have just read "Harold" (for the first time) and "Mary" (for the fourth) [...] It is needless for me to say how profo...G. H. Lewes and George EliotAlfred TennysonQueen MaryPrint: Book
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1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and uncyvile Lyfe" (1579).Gabriel Harvey Cyvile and uncyvile LyfePrint: Book


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