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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain bo...Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor [n/a]Arabian Nights Entertainments, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister): 'My uncle was so particular about ...Elizabeth Sewell anonArabian Nights' EntertainmentsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good stories - and the Little Hunchback in the Arabian Nig...George Eliot [pseud.] anonArabian Nights, story of the Little HunchbackPrint: Book
1850-1899'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.'George Eliot and G.H. Lewes anon.Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'Mary Shelley [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were wri...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu unknownArabian TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian N...Print: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, a Continuation of the Arabian N...Print: Book
1800-1849'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin", - very witty and humor...Sydney Smith Theobald MathewArabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant ArabinPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Philip SidneyArcadia der Graffin von PembrockPrint: Book
1600-1699'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Francis WalsinghamArcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudenti...Print: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Howard Smith anon Archbishop LaudUnknown
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownArchivo StoricoPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred me deeply [...] It is truer than any slave-story I ev...Harriet Martineau Richard HildrethArchy MoorePrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'"G. H. Hardy Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'T. C. Elliott anon Arden of Faversham
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'Sylvanus Reynolds anon Arden of Faversham


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