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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I read (said he [Johnson],) Sharpe's letters on Italy over again, when I was at Bath. There is a great deal of matter in them.'Samuel Johnson Samuel SharpLetters from Italy, describing the Customs and Man...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.'Benjamin Newton Samuel ShuckfordThe sacred and profane history of the worldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".'Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Samuel SmilesSelf HelpPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gre...George Gregory Samuel SmilesSelf HelpPrint: Book
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Samuel SmilesLIfe and LabourPrint: Book
1800-1849'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tastes lying largely in the direction of biography ... ...James Glass Bertram Samuel Smiles[biographies of men]Print: Book
1800-1849Wiliam Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 19 [Sept] 1817: 'I have not read Mr. Coleridge's "Biographia", having contented myself with skimming parts of it ... 'William Wordsworth Samuel TaylorColeridgePrint: Book
1850-1899'Once he gave out to Laura's class two verses of "The Ancient Mariner", reading them through first, then dictating them very slowly'.Flora Thompson Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Ancient MarinerPrint: Book
1600-1699'And after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five houres adventures"; which though I have seen it twice, yet I never did admire or understand it enough - it...Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1600-1699'Begun again to rise betimes, by 4 a-clock. And made an end of "The Adventures of five houres", and it is a most excellent play.'Samuel Pepys Samuel TuckThe Adventures of five houresPrint: Book
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenDiary of a late physicianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I gre...James Glass Bertram Samuel WarrenTen thousand a yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, December 1851:

'You ask me about the "Lily and the Bee." If you have read it dear Ellen, you have effected an exploit bey...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel WarrenThe Lily and the Bee; an apologue of the Crystal P...Print: Book
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, December 1851:

'You ask me about the "Lily and the Bee." If you have read it dear Ellen, you have effected an exploit bey...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel WarrenunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'On WM Butler's monument in Westminster Abbey Whilst Butler needy wretch! was yet alive, ...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxSamuel Wesley ('the Younger')On the Setting up of Mr Butler's MonumentUnknown
1800-1849'It bears marks of being written by an English Tory High Churchman, the last very abundantly, but there is much in it very striking & elevating. Above all it holds an ade...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Samuel WilberforceA History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Am...Print: Book
1700-1799Pits said he had read Hurlothrumbo to some ladies till he was mad, and they were mad, and they were all mad; Strut commended the epilogue.Samuel 'Maggoty' JohnsonHurlothrumbo
1700-1799Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and there got Balty to read to me out of Sorbiere's observations in his voyage into England; and then to bed.'Balthasar St Michael Samuel de Sorbierevoyage into EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me.'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book


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