√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, so absurd as scarcely to be credible if they had not ... Benjamin Newton George Woods An account of the past and present state of the Is... Print : Book1700-1799 'Read Sir Richard Steele's Dedication of his Account of the state of the Roman Catholic Religion to the Pope'. Dudley Ryder Richard Steele An Account of the State of the Roman Catholic Reli... Print : Book1800-1849 'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who t... Sydney Smith Charles Napier An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedr... Print : Book1700-1799 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are... Elizabeth Montagu John Hawkesworth An account of voyages undertaken... for making dis... Print : Book1700-1799 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are... Elizabeth Montagu John Hawkesworth An account of voyages... Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "An Adventure of the North".' John Frederick William Dunn Gilbert Parker An Adventure of the North Print : Book1900-1945 'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' Joseph Conrad Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"] An Airman's Outings Print : Book1900-1945 'St Patrick's Day. Read An Algonquin Bride by Alan
Wetherall.' Thomas Buchanan Reginald Westgate Alan Wetherall An Algonquin Bride Print : Unknown1800-1849 'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.' Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne Knight An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard Payne Knight An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste Print : Book1600-1699 'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money h... Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert Cotton An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa... Print : Book1600-1699 'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I was mightily pleased this night in what we read about ... Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert Cotton An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa... Print : Book1600-1699 'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed.' Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert Cotton An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa... Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his "Strange Meeting" is worth all the others put togeth... William Soutar Edmund Blunden [ed] An Anthology of War Poems Print : Book1600-1699 'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.' Samuel Pepys Henry More An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the ... Print : Book1600-1699 'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is... Samuel Pepys Dr George Hakewill An apologie or declaration of the power and provid... Print : Book1800-1849 'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pasc... James Lackington Richard Watson An Apology for the Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Maxims", Burnets "Life of God in the Soul of Man" - "A ... John Clare Richard Watson An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters Print : Book1700-1799 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.' Elizabeth Carter Teresia Constantia Phillips An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constant... Print : Book1700-1799 Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving troubl... Catherine Talbot Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips Print : Book
