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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment ...Print: proof
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allu...Elizabeth Hamilton Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1700-1799'A book of travels, lately published under the title of [italics] Coriat Junior [end italics], and written by Mr. Paterson, was mentioned. Johnson said, this book was in ...Samuel Johnson Thomas CoryatCoryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Mone...Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[eonard]. into Golden Bough.'Virginia Woolf Thomas CreeveyThe Creevey PapersPrint: Book
1600-1699'So soon as word was brought me that Mr Coventry was come with the barge to the Tower, I went to him and find him reading of the psalmes in short-hand (which he is now bu...Sir William Coventry Thomas CrossSternhold and Hopkins PsalmsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'In this caprice, if I may call it so, I think that my Father had before him the fine republican example of "Sandford and Merton", some parts of which book he admired ext...Philip Gosse Thomas DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Sandford & Merton'Mary Shelley Thomas DayHistory of Sandford and Merton; a work intended fo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and finnish [sic] Vind. of the Rights of Woman - finish Sand. & Merton'Mary Shelley Thomas DayHistory of Sandford and Merton: a work intended fo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.'James Carlyle Thomas DayThe History of Sandford and MertonPrint: Book
1700-1799[from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natural gifts to the writing of books of an educational n...Maria Edgeworth Thomas DaySandford and MertonPrint: Book
Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how she and her brother William received a letter from him: "Yesterday morning my brother and I walked to Rydale, and he...William and Dorothy WordsworthThomas De QuinceyletterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Thomas De Quincey how John Wordsworth received a letter from him: "When your Friend Johnny came from school last night, his mother sai...Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 6 April 1818: 'Had the Correspondence [between Henry Brougham and William Wilberforce, 1806] been published upon Mr B[rougham]'s firs...William Wordsworth Thomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [c. 14 April 1818]: 'The notes upon [Henry] Brougham's Speech, I have not seen, unless they be those from the pen of Mr De Quincey...William Wordsworth, Viscount LowtherThomas De QuinceyClose Comments on a Straggling SpeechUnknown
1850-1899'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an Opium Eater" he discovered Wordsworth'.John Masefield Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had made a few visits to him, Mr De Quincey was so kind as to take some particular notice of me; and afterwards when he wrote his Grasmere article about "George...Thomas de Quincey Thomas de QuinceyGeorge and Sarah GreenPrint: Serial / periodical, proofs
1800-1849
1850-1899		'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the Englis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey[article]Print: Serial / periodical


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