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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly - Tales of my Landlord & several of the works of Plat...Percy Bysshe Shelley Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...James Hogg Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever acknowledge it; but with regard to the author there is...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote with the Multitude, yet some pretend to know more & t...George Crabbe Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Maria Edgeworth Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottWaverlyPrint: Book
1900-1945'This 'new direction' [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...Philip Larkin Virginia WoolfWaves, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked old play that you never read: "Good Mirabel, do not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's Nym in Henry V: and the Expressions are in no few Pas...Hester Lynch Thrale William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I wonder if you can tell me what the enclosed flower is? It is very pretty—deep, almost maroon, red flowers in a big coarse, burdock-like plant. It is not in my b...William Henry Hudson Edward StepWayside and Woodland Blossoms: A Pocket GuidePrint: Book
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthWe are sevenPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter ...Princess Beatrice Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'Ruth Baily Edna LyallWe TwoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue:- 1.12.36
    C. E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of last read + approved
4. The Secret...		Victor Alexander William Fryer HarveyWe Were SevenPrint: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1850-1899?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literat...Thomas Burt Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph on Miss Lowe's marriage, at Venice, and have stupidl...Henry James wedding announcementPrint: Newspaper


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