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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Go...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Sarah TrimmerAbridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Le...Print: Book
1700-1799'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those of women not so well. He repeated to us, in his for...Samuel Johnson John DrydenAbsalom and AchitophelPrint: Book
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1600-1699		'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close associate and disciple of [Peter] Ramus in his programme ...Gabriel Harvey Audomarus TalaeusAcademiaPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of compliment, are scored down page after page of the De Fi...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge George DyerAcademic UnityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Drummond'.Mary Godwin William DrummondAcademical QuestionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finish "Accident" by Arnold Bennett, write up my diary, and so to bed.'Thomas Kitching Arnold BennettAccidentPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writings: good [...] Have been reading Wilberforce: grow...Harriet Martineau Thomaccount of "Oxford Movement"Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:] 'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastleshire of the charming Mrs Wilson of 104 [?years old...Catherine Talbot Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New YorkPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read voyage to Corea'Mary Shelley Basil HallAccount of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart announcing the great defeat of the French, and their ...Mary Berry Lord Cathcartaccount of Battle of BorodinoPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".'John Cole PercevalAccount of CeylonPrint: Book
1850-1899'On Dec 2nd [1854], he [Tennyson] wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in a few minutes, after reading the description in the Times in which occured the phrase "some o...Alfred Tennyson account of Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson: 'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated novelist, secured for me a copy of the Times, wherein I ...John Tyndall Dr Dabbsaccount of death of Alfred TennysonPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Robert Southey to John May, 2 November 1797: 'I saw Bullers death in the news-paper. — it surprized me. we are accustomed to think it dreadful for a young man to die dur...Robert Southey account of death of William BullerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,' describing her experiences following a nearby volca...Mr Rutherford Pliny the Youngeraccount of eruption of Vesuvius over PompeiiPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Newton, the Bishop of Bristol, having been mentioned, Johnson, recollecting the manner in which he had been censured by that Prelate, thus retaliated:-"Tom knew he s...Samuel Johnson Thomas NewtonAccount of his Own LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'I brought from the Library "Pennant's [Views?] of London", out of which I drew a view of the Savoy Hospital'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I drew out of Pennant a View of the Ruins of Clerkenwell Church'Joseph Hunter Thomas PennantAccount of LondonPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [makes various enthusiastic exclamations on this].'Mary Berry unknownaccount of military campaign in SpainUnknown


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