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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser George AnsonA Voyage Round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'We took Beroe incrassata, Medusa limpidissima, plicata and obliquata, Alcyonium anguillare (probably the thing that Shelvoke mentions in his "Voyage Round the World" p. ...Joseph Banks George ShelvockeA Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Introduction to Sir H. Davy's Chemistry - write. In the evening read Anson's voyage and Curt. Shelley reads Don Q. aloud after tea - Finish Anson's voyage befor...Mary Godwin Richard WalterA Voyage round the World in the years MDCCXL, I, I...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton Archibald CampbellA Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:] 'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just finished them. The description of the savage inhabitan...Elizabeth Carter James CookA Voyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.Sydney Smith William HeudeA Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overlan...Print: Book
1900-1945'Books read from Feby 16th/18

King Richard II    Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream    do.
Henry the Eighth    do.
As You Lik...		Edward Henry Jones James Prior (pseud.)A Walking GentlemanPrint: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr perkins new booke'Richard Rhodes William PerkinsA warning against the idolatrie of the last timesPrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Rhodes read of perkin'Richard Rhodes William PerkinsA warning against the idolatrie of the last timesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I return to you the type and the proof which you have sent me. The "English Review" thing is wonderfully done, [...]. The Edward Grey in Paris article is very cleverly d...Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettA Week in ParisManuscript: typescript
1900-1945'Am feeling in a happier frame of mind than I have been for a long time, for a letter from Nora came at tea telling me the best news that I could possibly hear, tha...Thomas Wainwright Allen RaineA Welsh Singer: A NovelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "a Welsh Witch". Wrote to Claude, Maysie and Mother.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "A Welsh Witch". Walked to the church to meet Miss Jenner.'Verena Vera Pennefather Allen RaineA Welsh Witch: A Romance of Wild PlacesPrint: Book
1600-1699'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein...Samuel Pepys John FletcherA wife for a monthPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 67 Eastern Avenue, 28th. Nov. 1945.
A. Austin Miller in the chair.

1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & signed.
Muriel Stevens J. M. BarrieA Window in ThrumsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. As an introduction to our...		Francis E. Pollard J. M. BarrieA Window in ThrumsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a very good Novel - Some of the characters such as the D...Eugenia Wynne Thomas Skinner SurrA Winter in London, or Sketches of FashionPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 8 July 1802, 'In the afternoon ... I read the Winter's Tale ...'Dorothy Wordsworth William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir.
Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last!
Neve Kashmir
A woman in the antipodes & far east
    by Mary ...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Mary HallA Woman in the Antipodes and Far EastPrint: Book


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