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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and Burns whilst on '"solitary walks on summer evenings"...Benjamin Brierley Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Alfred Tennyson Daniel O'ConnellHistory of IrelandPrint: Book
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1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleCromwellPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas Carlyle'Frederick'Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...Bewicke Blackburne Thomas CarlyleLatter DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room was more pleasant and retired than the one I slept in...Ellen Weeton [unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Sinclair Lewis Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Leo Tolstoy Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Maxim Gorky Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Jack London Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Honore de Balzac Print: Book
1900-1945The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",...Arnold Wesker Guy de Maupassant Print: Book
1900-1945The people in the beds near me also kept quiet during the days before the operation, when I lay busily reading about South Arabia, and this delicacy I have always r...Freya Stark [Anon] [Anon][book on South Arabia]Print: Book
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined]...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book
1800-1849The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839: 'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review" a few days ago, and he did so, I presume, by your ...T. W. Hook William Sewellarticle on 'the Oxford Divines'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899The Rev. Charles Cockin to Alfred Tennyson, November 1868: 'In reading an old translation of Du Bartas I was struck with the following verse from the "Woodman's Beare,...Charles Cockin Joshua Sylvester'The Woodman's Beare'Print: Book
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley article on King of SaxonyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley F. Cohen[?review of] Brand's Popular Antiquities Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley F. Cohen[?review of] Paradise of CoquettesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The Rev. P. Elmsley to John Murray (1815), regarding the Quarterly Review: 'I think you have not been very brilliant of late. I must say there is as great a difference...Rev. P. Elmsley The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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