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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'.Francis Place William GodwinInquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1800-1849I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo ...Anne Lister Sir Walter ScottThe Monastery. A romanceUnknown
1800-1849I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of WakefieldAnne Lister Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1700-1799I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woman's school it can scarcely be said that I learnt any...Francis Place Dillworths Spelling BookPrint: Book
1800-1849I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kep...Thomas Cooper Herder[volume of tales]Print: Book
1800-1849I was soon able to make my way in a volume of tales by Herder, Lessing , and others. My school prospered for I took care to attend to its duties assiduously; and yet kep...Thomas Cooper Lessing[volume of tales]Print: Book
1700-1799I will here give an account of the Hymns which I could say ... This I have copied from Mr E[vans] writing in an old hymn book of mine.Joseph Hunter 'An old Hymn Book'Print: Book
1900-1945I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing.Arnold Bennett André MauroisAriel: ou la vie de ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t.Arnold Bennett André GideL'Ecole des FemmesPrint: Book
1700-1799I wrote out of the Gentleman's Magazine the various [games?] assigned for the 9 of diamonds... to which I added my opinion on the subject.Joseph Hunter Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799I wrote out of the Monthly Review, an anecdote of Dr Franklin's [surgeon?] who said that the [king?] was the only gentleman in the kingdom. I began to make an index to th...Joseph Hunter Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you to read them, because they are too much perhaps. I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensChristmas Stories (2, unnamed)Print: Book
1800-1849I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and th...Lady Louisa Stuart Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1900-1945If you ever pass the free library I should pop in as most of the illustrated weeklies have these maps each week. While on the subject of libraries — I think you wou...Arthur Morris Arnold BennettHelen of the High HandPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Moll Flanders, remarking upon the work as 'A puzzling b...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersPrint: Book
1800-1849In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, who remembers reading with her 'parts of the New Tes...Harriet Martineau and friend New TestamentPrint: Book
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1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
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1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy DidPrint: Book
1900-1945in 'The Scarlet Pimpernel' there was the key line, 'That demmed elusive Pimpernel'; and, of course, 'demmed' would never do, so Mother substituted 'awful'. I think she de...Harriet Beer Baroness Emmuska OrczyThe Scarlet PimpernelPrint: Book
1900-1945In 'The Ugly Duckling' the meaning was something that in my own way I thought about much of the time: I was destined for a higher sphere and would be appreciated when I a...Patricia Beer Hans Christian AndersonThe Ugly DucklingPrint: Book


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