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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799' [Johnson said] You may find wit and humour in verse, and yet no poetry. "Hudibras" has a profusion of these; yet it is not to be reckoned a poem. 'The Spleen', in Dodsl...Samuel Johnson Ibbot'Fit of the Spleen, A'Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I pro...Harriet Martineau InglisTravelsPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text] "Hail beauteous spot of Nature's earth/ Arrayed in ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Innes[?]Lines on Mountghaine [?]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's "Dscourses:" very bombastic and high-flown; strong in words ...Mr Greathead IrvingDiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irving's new book; I have not yet been able to read it ...anon IrvingprefacePrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me by an unknown correspondent. I read the pamphlet wit...George Grote Irvingpamphlet on mythology and the human mindPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a num...		Charlotte Brontë Is.Is (pseud.)'Woman's Mission'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Isocrates Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill IsocratesAd NicoclemPrint: Book
1800-1849'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s Cer...John Stuart Mill IsocratesAd DemonicumPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter 433. December 1st, 1831: "You know my Isocrates is a bad edition. In it, there is sometimes a double tau & sometimes a double sigma quite ad libitum. For insta...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Isocrates[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'To wander into bookland — I'm very much engrossed in the "Cambridge Ancient History" which certainly is a very remarkable achievement. Its first two volumes have g...Gertrude Bell J. B. Bury, S. A. Cook, F. E. Adcock.The Cambridge Ancient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Jalaluddin ...'Mountstuart Elphinstone JalaluddinMasnaviPrint: Book
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] ; Japher's "Farriery" ....Mountstuart Elphinstone JapherFarrieryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees...Norman Nicholson Jefferies[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle JeffreyArticle IXPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle JeffreyArticle XPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington JenkinsReasonableness and Certainty of the Chrisian Relig...Print: Book
1700-1799'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [close italics] they may be called, for he never writes...Frances Burney Jerningham'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical ...Print: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Josephus Print: Book


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