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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora...Leslie Stephen John Henry NewmanAn essay in aid of a grammar of assentPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada, and its prefatory Essay of Heroic Plays.Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenAn Essay of Heroic PlaysPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Philip Woodhousean Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotl...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not ye...Elizabeth Barrett Frederick Sylvester North DouglasAn Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between ...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & generally, feeling. I should have thought Camoens defici...Robert Southey William HayleyAn Essay on Epic Poetry Print: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] reason would he skip & play Pleas?d to the last he cr...Lady Caroline Lamb Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IUnknown
1800-1849'Oh Happiness! Our beings end and aim,...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAlexander PopeAn Essay on Man, Epistle IVUnknown
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 182...Arabella Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Lady Dacre, 3 July 1836, on Elizabeth Barrett: 'The "Essay on Mind" which she sent me [...] was written before she was seventeen -- It is a ...Henry Cary Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, ?18 July 1845: 'I confess to you that [...] as soon as I read your "Essay on Mind" (which of course I managed to do about 12 hour...Robert Browning Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 182...Edward and Mary Moulton-BarrettElizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to her daughter Elizabeth Barrett, on receiving advance copies of the latter's first published volume of poetry the previous evening, 28 February 182...Edward and Mary Moulton-BarrettElizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted y...Caroline Kenyon Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted y...Mr Philipps Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted y...John Kenyon Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Moulton-Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 11 April 1826: 'Mrs. Campbell & her lovely children quite well. They all have the poem. Mrs. D[effell] says it has ...Mrs Deffell Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16 May 1826: 'Emily lent the Essay on Mind to John Cumberlidge who read it attentively and returned it, marked in [itali...John Cumberlidge Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826: 'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly-gifted, elegant-minded Niece [Elizabeth Barrett] ...anon Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John TaylorAn Essay on MoneyPrint: Book


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