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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thomson] Since I received your letter I have read his [T...James Boswell Biographical DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay fr...Wordsworth FamilyWilliam Michael RossettiBiographical essay on WordsworthPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779). Francis Douce James GrangerBiographical HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has entertained me exceedingly, and I do not think him ...Samuel Johnson James GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have, since I saw you, read every word of Granger's "Biographical History". It has entertained me exceedingly, and I do not think him ...James Boswell James GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1700-1799Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for contemplation, but he was thought to be so well qua...Frances Hamilton Rev J GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1850-1899'But by a lucky chance I happened upon a book included in Lubbock's "hundred" -George Henry Lewes's "Biographical History of Philosophy". It came just when I needed it an...Thomas A. Jackson George Henry LewesBiographical History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesBiographical History of Philosophy, APrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's "Lives"'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John AdolphusBiographical Memoirs of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads aloud to us in the evening out of Adolphus's lives'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John AdolphusBiographical Memoirs of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two vol...Virginia Stephen unknownbiographical worksPrint: Book
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], ...Harriet Martineau Biographie UniversellePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had criticized but read with lively interest."Henry James Edmund GossebiographiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf unknownbiographiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceThomas, Lord MacaulayBiographiesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841: 'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & I never read her memoir. Therefore notwithstandin...Elizabeth Barrett Washington IrvingBiography and Poetical Remains of the late Margare...Print: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all those speeches & obsequy things at the end? it is ver...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William ElderBiography of Elisha Kent KanePrint: Book
1850-189914 June 1854 [following account of morning spent sitting for portrait to Watts, and attending two business meetings]: 'I got a hasty luncheon and started alone for my ...Lady Charlotte Guest biography of Hartley ColeridgePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the character. Energy, acuteness, tyranny, and audacity i...Thomas Babington Macaulay MonkBiography of Richard BentleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish Hester Piozzibiography of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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