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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Saviles (in a book of the Baronets lately come out), with...Gertrude Savile Thomas WottonThe English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and HisPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many yea...Virginia Woolf Thomas WrightLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a review of Lauder?s "Scottish Rivers" for the "Academy" which I think you will like; I should not have done it just now, but I was in the humour ? and I ...Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Dick LauderScottish RiversPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Thomas a KempisThe Imitation of ChristPrint: Book
1900-1945'Got a large packet of letters by my cyclist orderly, including a charming little edition of the Imitation of Christ from Sonia.'Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton Thomas à KempisImitation of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of information about the Burmese, 'Vid. 2 Years in Ava, 182'.Thomas Abercromby TrantTwo Years in Ava, from May 1824-May 1826Print: Book
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.? Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.'Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington Macaulay[essays]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked punishment by getting up to my window to finish an ess...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Thomas Babbington Macaulay[uknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Thomas Babington MacAulay Print: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owned by his father, a Marxist railway worker. But neit...Percy Wall Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1900-1945'[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work and Wages particularly appealed to him because it offe...Emrys Daniel Hughes Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Peru and Mexico and The French Revolution. Academic cr...Jack Lawson Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1800-1849'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How ...Harriet Martineau Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were...Mary Russell Mitford Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England, from the Accession of Jame...Print: Book
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		[D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday'D.R. Davies Thomas Babington MacaulayThe History of England from the Accession of James...Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays on Lord Clive And Warren HastingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken...Henry Rider Haggard Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1900-1945'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported h...Margaret Cole Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book


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