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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849" ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows: "'...William Beckford StewartonRevolutionary PlutarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'.Percy Bysshe Shelley StewartonFemale Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biograph...Print: Book
1800-1849'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.Mary Godwin StewartonFemale Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biograph...Print: Book
1700-1799'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'We fell to wondering, while the evening light faded from land to sea, what the meagre history of Ineboli could be - so remote it seemed, so forgotten - and it pres...Gertrude Bell StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Student Christian MovementA Book of Prayers for StudentsPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his Tusculan villa, i.e. at his father's house in Saffron...Gabriel Harvey SturmunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors from Hesiod to Athenaeus, and of Latin authors from Cat...Thomas Babington Macaulay Suetonius Print: Book
1800-1849'Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'.Percy Bysshe Shelley SuetoniusTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Suetonius is finished and S. begins the Historia Augustana'.Percy and Mary Shelley Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and finish Anna St Ives'Mary Shelley Suetonius[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton SuetoniusDe Vita Caesarum [the Twelve Caesars]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.George Eliot [pseud] Sully[article on G.H. Lewes]Manuscript: proof of article
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829: 'We have a quantity of leisure here, and go on in a spirited manner with Dante. I am now re...Harriet Countess Granville SumnerRecords of the CreationPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey SutcliffunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'stepson of Anna Larpent SutherlandTour of ConstantinoplePrint: Book
1700-1799'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".'Anna Larpent SutherlandTour of ConstantinoplePrint: Book
1850-1899?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he ...Leslie Stephen SwiftsermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799" finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love."Lady Eleanor Butler SwinburneTravels through SpainPrint: Book


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