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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830: 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore...Mary Somerville Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore...Mary Somerville Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a who...Colonel D'Aguilar Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'No doubt there are longeurs, but really not many. The most teasing part is th...John Wilson Croker Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831: 'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and though it can be matter of surprise to no one to find him...Gally Knight Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:] 'Read Lalla Rookh.'Elizabeth Firth Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:

'I despatch to-day a box of return books [loaned by Williams]: among them will be found two or three of th...		Charlotte Brontë Thomas MooreLife, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (vols 1 a...Print: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Thomas MooreTom Cribb's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware of the subversive potential of great literature. Foll...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.'Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int...Hilary Spalding Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the pr...Joseph Stamper Thomas MoreUtopiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud'Mary Shelley Thomas MoreLibellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Utopia'Mary Shelley Thomas MoreLibellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, ...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very good but inmethodical book.'Samuel Pepys Thomas MorelyA plaine and easie introduction to practicall musi...Print: Book
1700-1799'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there. JOHNSON. "It is sad stuff, Sir,...Samuel Johnson Thomas MorerShort Account of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MortimerThe British PlutarchPrint: Book
1700-1799'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his juvenile pieces. Of an elder brother of his, Thomas ...James Hogg Thomas Mouncey Print: Unknown


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