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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities.Anne Lister Joseph SpencePolymetics AbridgedPrint: Book
1800-1849[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get.Anne Lister 'Paris guide'Print: Book
1800-1849The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses ...Anne Lister 'Old Maids'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get...Anne Lister European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against it...Anne Lister David Henry UrquhartCommentaries on classical learningPrint: Book
1800-1849"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first...Anne Lister Jean Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
1800-1849In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book...Anne Lister Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.Anne Lister John StewartCollections and recollectionsPrint: Book
1800-1849At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal ...Anne Lister The art of employing time to the greatest advantag...Print: Book
1800-1849Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some inst...Anne Lister John AshGrammatical InstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.Anne Lister Edward YoungThe complaint, or night thoughtsPrint: Book
1800-1849Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in th...Anne Lister  Print: text printed on gravestonesUnknown
1800-1849At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I ...Miss Browne George Gordon ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forev...Anne Lister The Globe and TravellerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten...Anne Lister Anne ListerJournalManuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
1800-1849'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back....Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th editionAnne Lister Anthony Todd ThomsonA conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the LondonPrint: Book
1800-1849Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn withou...Anne Lutton [French Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I got novels, plays etc and read them privately... My ...Anne Lutton ['novels']Print: Book


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