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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a great deal of rubbish, and books that were too 'old', o...James Williams William PrescottConquest of Peru, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 20 April 1808: 'At night finished Miss Warren's novel ["Conrade, or the Gamesters" by galloping over half the pages; human patience could not regular...Mary Berry Caroline Matilda WarrenConrade, or the GamestersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud.] Frederick Denison MauriceConscience: Lectures On CasuistryPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John James ParkConservative ReformPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous 1772 pro-slavery pamphlet (by "a West Indian plantat...Granville Sharp Samuel EstwickConsiderations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Ca...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is no...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinConsiderations Sur La Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of the Revolution - & Clarendon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Madame de StaelConsiderations sur les principaux evenemens de la ...Print: Book
1800-1849Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excerpt: '...the tendency of the last of her productions,...John Scott Anne-Louise-Germaine de StaelConsiderations sur les Principaux Evenements de laPrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830: 'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work of Sir Humphrey Davey "Consolation in travail" It is ...Elizabeth Barrett Sir Humphrey DavyConsolation in TravailPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Hester Lynch Thrale BoethiusConsolation of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Verses on Virtue published in Dryden's Miscellanies! ye...Samuel Johnson BoethiusConsolation of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Layard has lent me Sir Humphry Davy's "Consolations in Travel, or the Last Days of a Philosopher". It is a posthumous publication, & the editor says that "Had his lif...Sarah Harriet Burney Humphry DavyConsolations in Travel, or the Last days of a Phil...Print: Book
1800-1849Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany should be dedicated to him.Walter Scott Archibald ConstableConstable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Pu...Unknown
1700-1799'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine')Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeConstantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry HallamConstitutional History of England [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ...Charlotte Bronte George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1850-1899?By the way, dear, I must send you "Consuelo"; you said you had quite forgotten it, if I remember aright. And surely a book that that could divert me, when I thought myse...Robert Louis Stevenson George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'There lies Consuelo -- done with! 'I shall tell you frankly that it strikes [italics]me[end...Robert Browning George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she lived. We were given some indication of her passion...Howard R. Smith George SandConsueloPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:

'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say tha...		Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.)ConsueloPrint: Book


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