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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbread: 'The blind Man [Matthew Newton] and his Wife an...[Miss] Newton unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides t...Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'Anne Lister Jean Jaques RousseauJulie: ou Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfort...Anne Lister Thomas CampbellThe Pleasures of HopePrint: Book
1800-1849' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came ...Anne Lister Theodore HookSayings and DoingsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 ...Anne Lister Peak Scenery, or Excursions in DerbyshirePrint: Book
1800-1849' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'Anne Lister Henry MooreBuxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions iPrint: Book
1800-1849' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield....Anne Lister Mme Marie-Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive ...Anne Lister ChateaubriandLe Roi Est Mort, Vive Le RoiPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe...Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal PolitiquePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, PolwheleAnne Lister Richard PolwheleSermons: a new volumePrint: Book
1800-1849Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lu...Anne Lister Lucian Print: Book
1800-1849before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.Anne Lister [Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too An...Anne Lister Thomas MooreThe Loves of the AngelsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. T...Anne Lister Retrospective ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enou...Anne Lister Jane MarcetConversations on Natural PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well...Anne Lister William CowperRetirementPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va touche...Anne Lister Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book


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