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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the local library, and in French ?Les Anges Noirs? de Maur...Winifred Agnes Moore GabouisPerfide Albion ? Entente CordialPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 2nd vol. of Adele - write - read Curt. In the evening we go up to Diodati - Shelley finishes the Panegyric of Trajan and begins Tacitus'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Gaius Plinius SecundusPanegyricusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley's 24th birthday. Write read [underlined] tableau de famille [end underlining] - go out with Shelley in the boat & read aloud to him the fourth book of Virgil - ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Gaius Plinius SecundusPanegyricusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent t...Anne Romilly Gallois[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that I ever met with of any sect, the speech of John Will...Benjamin Newton Galt[Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin We...Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on the Late Depreciation of Bank Notes" [...] During ...George Grote GaltonChart on the Late Depreciation of Bank NotesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and actions of the Great Marquis of Montrose, that I think ...Jennet Pryce GardinerGreat Civil WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avant de s'eteindre ont vu le liberateur de la France et...John Ruskin GaullieurHistoire de GenevePrint: Book
1700-1799'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than any other voyage-writer): he says that there are no re...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu GemelliunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ... some "Idylls" of Gesner ...Mountstuart Elphinstone GesnerIdyllsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account of 'My Father's Illness [1888]': 'He read or had read to him at this time the following books or essays: Leaf's edition of the Iliad; th...Alfred Tennyson GibbonHistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar" ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone GilchristGrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers to me as the author I dislike but an author has no ri...James Hogg Gillies[review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789"Lady Eleanor Butler GilpinNorthern TourPrint: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's notes on conversations with the Duke of Wellington at Beaudesert: '"The Subaltern" [Mr Gleig's book, which I [Croker] had brought with me and...Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington Gleig'The Subaltern'
1900-1945'Letters of resignation were read from Miss Goadby and from Mr and Mrs A.L. Goadby'.Alfred Rawlings Goadby[letters of resignation from the Goadbys from the ...Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] I unpack and arrange my things [on arrival at employers' country property and read a little of Wilhelm Meister.' [readings from this...Claire Clairmont GoetheWilhelm Meister's LehrjahrePrint: Book
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & so took a month lying down; have not written a line; ...Virginia Woolf GoetheFaustPrint: Book
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1800-1849		S. T. Coleridge to John Murray, 23 August 1814, in reponse to suggestion that he translate Goethe's Faust: 'Thinking, as I do, that among many volumes of praiseworth...Samuel Taylor Coleridge GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Briefwechsel [Goethe-SChiller correspondence] I have also read; and must soon read again; purposing to make it the handle for an Essay on Schiller, in the Foreign Re...Thomas Carlyle Goethe & SchillerCorrespondencePrint: Book


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