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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sable mantle of the night....' Elizabeth Lyttelton anonAn Evening HymnPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The battle of Flodden Field which was fought between the...Robert LambeAn exact and circumstantial history of the battle ...Print: Book
1600-1699'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1600-1699'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... tri...Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in George Robert Greig's The Subaltern: 'There is undoub...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas ChattertonAn Excelente Balade of CharitiePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 2.3.43
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

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9. Kenneth Nicholson read a monograph entitled...		Arnold Joselin J. W. DunneAn Experiment with TimeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John PearsonAn Exposition of the CreedPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839: 'At painful times, when composition is impossible & reading not [italics]enough[end italics], grammars & dict...Elizabeth Barrett John ParkhurstAn Hebrew and English LexiconPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Wollstoncraft's "View of the French Revolution" Vol I. It appears to rather a panegyric upon the actions of the national assembly than a just history. She think...Joseph Hunter Mary WollstonecraftAn Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Pro...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read view of the French Revolution'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftAn Historical and Moral View of the origin and pro...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the View of the French Revolution for a short t...Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary WollstonecraftAn Historical and Moral View of the origin and pro...Print: Book
1800-1849'Not very well - Shelley very unwell - read de Montfort - and talk with S. in the evening read View of the French Revolution'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftAn Historical and Moral View of the origin and pro...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William ParnellAn Historical Apology for the Irish CatholicsPrint: 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 John BiglandAn Historical Display of the Effects of Physical a...Print: Book
completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author a Democratic writer too often attempts to justify p...I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populaceI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTIONI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become more dreadful as we approach to its summit I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a change of its summit I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book


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