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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Charles Lamb's response to reading marginal comments by S. T. Coleridge in his copy of Samuel Daniel's Poetical Works, in letter to Coleridge: "'I wish every book I have ...Charles Lamb Samuel Taylor Coleridgeannotations to Samuel Daniel's poetryManuscript: annotations in printed text
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, ClarissaManuscript: annotations in printed text
1700-1799"When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h...Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaighannotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela
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1800-1849		Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary on those passages of the Epistles to the Corinthi...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydAnnotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum prim...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas HarwoodAnnotations, Ecclesiastical and DevotionalPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of noted Novelist on the poster. And I thought of Hugh...Virginia Woolf announcement of death of Stella BensonPrint: Poster
1700-1799'In January, 1778, Mrs. Burney [Frances Burney's stepmother], who was glancing over the newspaper at the breakfast table, read aloud the advertisement of a new book, "E...Elizabeth Burney announcement of publication of EvelinaPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaweed. Returned. Took shelter under the Museum cornice...John Cole unknownAnnouncements of Lectures on GeologyPrint: Poster
1850-1899'I had a most thrilling batch of "Timeses" yesterday containing Labori's appeal to the Emperor. I see by a local paper that the military attachés are to be interrogated i...Gertrude Bell Annuaire du Club Alpin FrançaisPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'W[ordsworth] received a copy [of the Annual Anthology] in Aug. [1799], and discussed it in his letter to [Joseph] Cottle of 2 Sept.'William Wordsworth Annual AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant and tender poem of yours in the 2nd Vol: of the [Annua...William Wordsworth VariousAnnual AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849''Annual Obituray for 1833' [Prose passage on the Death of Sir Walter Scott]' [transcript of text].Deveraux Bowly Annual ObituaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"In Feb. 1834, W[ordsworth] remembered having first read Crabbe in the Annual Register during the 1780s; there he also read Beattie's 'Illustrations on Sublimity.'"William Wordsworth Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Annual Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 22 November 1829: 'Ladies Sandon, Mary Saurin, Harriet and Louisa Ryder, devouring the two annuals you gave m...'Ladies Sandon,' Mary Saurin, Harriet and Louisa Ryder AnnualsPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Bonetus de LatesAnnuli ... super astrologiamPrint: Book
1600-1699'I am very well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last night from Westminster hall, of Driden's upon the present war - a very good poem.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenAnnus Mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666; an his...Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to Lord Buchan" has been inserted after p.196 and has th...David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan David Steuart Erskine, Lord BuchanAnonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Bucha...Print: Book
1900-1945'The justness of all these things said in "Another Sheaf" is what strikes one most.'Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyAnother SheafPrint: Book


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