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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris – not worth re-reading! – and began the Hippolytus.Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesIphigenia in TaurisPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 12, 1831: "Finished the Iphigenia in Tauris –not worth re-reading! –and began the Hippolytus"Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry, December 19, 1831: The waking was not agreeable. But I read myself into a good humour. Hippolytus is not one of Euripides’s best plays, tho’ it is very sup...Elizabeth Barrett Browning EuripidesHippolytusPrint: Book
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1850-1899After listing some canonical writers discussed by Pound and whom Ford had never read he then goes on to write: 'On the other hand I possess a certain patience and, if I...Ford Madox Ford EuripidesAlcestisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".'Dr Delany EusebiusLife of Constantine the GreatPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. John Jones EusebiusDe Praeparatio EvangelicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.'John Cole EvansTouristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of Birmingham. "It is said that it was formerly called ...John Cole EvansTouristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.'John Cole EvansThe TelegraphPrint: Pamphlet
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman recently so there is no need to give any personal d...Charles and Katherine Evans Evans[paper on Housman's 'The Sheepfold']Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Ewing Print: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans FarnellCults of the Greek StatesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Second Life of Jesus, and reading Neale's History of the ...George Eliot [pseud] FawcettEconomic Condition of the Working ClassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, showing clearly that there are resources enough for al...Harriet Martineau FelkinReport on working classes of NottinghamUnknown
1800-1849The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'Thomas Babington Macaulay FenelonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832: 'I have the greatest pleasure in reading religious books. I find that I understand the Bible be...Harriet Countess Granville FennSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford Fenning'Introduction' [on algebra]Print: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] read Gifford's introduction and Ferriar's essay on Massinger in Dec. 1808-09.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ferriar[essay]Print: BookUnknown
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyjoo, a very clever work in 14 volumes; and I am now r...Elizabeth Smith FeyjooTheatro critico universalePrint: Book


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