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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1500-1599
1600-1699		'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"] are underlinings and comments [on the necessity of ...Gabriel Harvey Lord Henry Howard, Earl of NorthamptonA Defensative against the poyson of supposed proph...Print: Book
1850-1899'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally that I was much impressed by your remarkable novel...Arnold Bennett Allan Noble MonkhouseA DeliverancePrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1800-1849'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answers to Lucretius, Hobbesand spinoza. what a differenc...Benjamin Newton Samuel ClarkeA demonstration of the being and attributes of GodPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'.Benjamin Newton Samuel ClarkeA demonstration of the being attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799'I took [books] to the library and brought Aikin's "Description of the Country between 30 and 40 miles around Manchester", nevertheless he has Sheffield which is 42 miles...Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the Country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I finished Aikin's "Description &c"... I began to read my "Evenings at Home" again. It is a book written by Mr Aikin and Mrs Brabauld.Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1700-1799'We got the "Monthly Magazine" from Miss Haynes who takes it in. Mr E. says it is the best published. I drew a copy of Stanley Hall near Bolton le Moor out of Aikin.'Joseph Hunter John AikinA Description of the Country from thirty to forty ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I wanted to thank you for the volume you've sent me. The preface is jolly good let me tell you. It is wonderfully good--and true. Thanks to you both.'Joseph Conrad Ivan TurgenevA Desperate Character and Other StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by Mr Marriott' beginning ‘In a Devonshire lane as I trott...Catherine Austen John MarriottA Devonshire LaneUnknown
1600-1699'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, h...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Chris...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymous A Dialogue on Parliamentary ReformPrint: Book
1700-1799[We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive remarks on the progress of those arts that seem partic...Anna Larpent Ramsaya dialogue on tastePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-seeking ways at such a time [...] Her hospitality had ...George Otto Trevelyan Mary Boykin ChesnutA diary from DixiePrint: Book
1800-1849'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions (1839), in 1841'. ...Elizabeth Barrett Frederick MarryatA Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutio...Print: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney Samuel ScottA diary of some religious exercises, and experienc...Print: Book


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