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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .'Arnold Bennett William Charles Macready[diary]Print: Book
1900-1945'About 300 yards above Camp III we found the body of Maurice Wilson, who had atempted to climb Mount Everest alone the previous year and about whom nothing more had been...Expedition membersMaurice Wilson[diary]Manuscript: Codex, Diary
1900-1945'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading her ludicrous, pathetic, nauseating diary about hersel...Antonia White Christine Botting[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said it articulated a great many of his own feelings. At f...Antonia White Antonia White[diary]Manuscript: Codex, green notebook
1700-1799'In Archbishop Laud's Diary I found the following passage, which I read to Dr. Johnson: "1623. February 1, Sunday. I stood by the most illustrious Prince Charles, at d...James Boswell William Laud[diary]Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will b...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknown[dictionaries]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a][dictionaries]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Bayley[Dictionary]Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo...William Henry Davies unknown [didactic poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Weaver-novelist William Holt extolled the standard greats ("Noble Carlyle; virtuous Tolstoi; wise Bacon; jolly Rabelais; towering Plato...") and, having taught himself G...William Holt [dime novels]Print: Book
1600-1699'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased with them, they hitting the very diseases of the Navy...Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[discourse on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choke...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded his papers the burliest burglar held his breath for ...Captain Bance Lord Grey[Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of c...Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his defects. No insane dread of misrepresentation; no discu...Sydney Smith Dugald Stewart[Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britann...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Middleton's "Free Enquiry" ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Conyers] Middleton[Dissertations in Latin and English]Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, whic...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book


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