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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811]Adam Sedgwick Thomas MalthusEssay on PopulationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MalthusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Malthus'Mary Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'Mary Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, accompanying this with comments including: '...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MannThe Magic MountainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I had rather felt the want of in pursuing the work... I ...Joseph Hunter Thomas MathiasA Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, F...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'Thomas Green Thomas MayThe history of the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pocket companions. the republican Bard & the philosopher...Robert Southey Thomas Maycontinuation of Lucan's PharsaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill Thomas McCrieLife of John KnoxPrint: Book
1800-1849'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.James Hogg Thomas McCrieLife of Andrew Melville, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'.James Hogg Thomas McCrieLife of John Knox, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.'Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas McCrieLife of John KnoxPrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have b...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which ...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do however [...]'Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas Medwinournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book contained! Poor Shelley is made to play quite a secondary part [goes on...Claire Clairmont Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India''Thomas Medwin Thomas Medwin[journal of time in India]Manuscript: diary


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