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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Monday, 2 March 1829: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club and went to the Society in the evening. There was a paper read by Mr. Bauld engineer upon the Subject of the min... Bauldpaper on mining-compass designUnknown
1850-1899'Some days we [Tennyson children] went flower-hunting, and on our return home, if the flower was unknown, he [Alfred Tennyson] would say, "Bring me my Baxter's Flowering ...Alfred Tennyson BaxterFlowering PlantsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or n...Jane Edwards BayleyDictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a li...Jane Edwards Bayley[Dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American'Harriet Martineau BeaumontMariePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Bede[The Ecclesiastical History]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.George Eliot [pseud] BekkerChariklesPrint: Book
1850-1899''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'George Eliot [pseud] Bekker (or Becker?)ChariklesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr Belfrage's Essay on "The Rainbow" [underlined].' [f...John Cole BelfrageThe RainbowPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] ...Walter Scott Bell'specimen of a historical novel'Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 16 November 1803: 'I have begun Belsham's History of England. It begins with Charles the second, and co...Lady Harriet Cavendish BelshamHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish BelshamLife of Charles IIPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish BelshamLife of James IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington BentleySermons on the Folly of AtheismPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame G...Maria Edgeworth BerquinAmi des Enfants: select stories for the instructio...Print: Book
1900-1945'Delicious day, bit of a roll, following wind pretty strong. Sat on deck all morning and read Bevan's "Scheurus"[??], which I finished, while we passed down Corsica [Cors...Gertrude Bell BevanunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse eno...Elizabeth Barrett BeverleyLetter to the Archbishop of YorkPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of the prophets. ? They are clever & forcible; coarse eno...Elizabeth Barrett BeverleyTombs of the ProphetsPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] read (in [John] Langhorne's translation) Bion's death of Adonis by 1786 ... 'William Wordsworth BionDeath of AdonisUnknown
1900-1945'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".'Wilfred Owen Bion of Smyrna'Epitaph on Adonis'Print: Book


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