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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Gr...George Gordon, Lord Byron GrimmunknownUnknown
1900-1945'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. ...Rosemary Sutcliff GrimmFairy TalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'Alfred Tennyson GrimmFairy StoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but ...John Gibson Lockhart GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after receiving from Queen Victoria, on 11 May, books including 'Guizot's edition of Prince Albert's Speeches': 'I ...Alfred Tennyson GuizotPreface to Speeches of Prince AlbertPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Guthrieunknown [Guthries Geography]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a table with numbers [some form of ms index?], two long...John Drummond Erskine HafizThe works of Hafez: with an account of his life an...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succession, and about as many more here and there; many o...Mountstuart Elphinstone HafizOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.'Harriet Martineau Hall Print: Unknown
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde HallamHistory of the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839: 'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures with it, and says such a book, forty years ago, wo... Hallam'Literature'Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has given me his entire library, to take whatever I like. I...Elizabeth Smith Hallen[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', beginning "Righteously have jealousy and suspicion been e... HareConfidence and DistrustPrint: Book
1800-1849'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of studen...George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others Hartley'on Man'Print: Book
1700-1799Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1749: 'When I was in town, I ask'd you if you had read Dr Hartley's book. You told me you had not [...] I have since read it a...Edward Young Hartley Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust me when I assure you, I don?t borrow from Harvey. The...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HarveyunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Of "Romney's Remorse" [Tennyson] notes: "Edward Fitzgerald said in a letter, 'I read Hayley's Life of Romney the other day: Romney wanted but education and reading to ma...Edward Fitzgerald HayleyLife of RomneyPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illu...Harriet Martineau HeberunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading ...Harriet Martineau HeerenunknownPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]: 'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accept, the best books in the world (except the Bible), H...Benjamin Jowett HegelPhilosophy of HistoryPrint: Book


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