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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written: I shall always read anything which you write. The ...Sydney Smith Archibald Constable [ed.]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history an...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be w...William Soutar [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George AntonAdam Mackie Encyclopaedia EdinensisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]Encyclopaedia LondinensisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Encyclopaedia LondinensisPrint: Book
1900-1945'A master's debate at school set me thinking, and I decided for myself as far as I could at that age. At 16 I joined the Under Thirty movement where I heard a debate on P...Aldous HuxleyEncyclopaedia of pacifismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 28th. [...] Read the Encyclopedia'. Claire Clairmont EncyclopediaPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned artic...Bruce Cummings Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook Encyclopedia BrittanicaPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 27 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, I have read some account of Ossian, and h...Hugh Stuart Boyd Encyclopedia entry on 'Ossian' controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans read 'An English Lumber Camp' - from internal evidence ...Henry Marriage Wallis Shane LeslieEnd of a Chapter, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pres...Emily Tennyson MartineauEndeavours After a Christian LifePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding John LylyEndimionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Ends and Means contains much that is good and new. Also his essays are quite attractive, his novels are utter tripe.'Aldous HuxleyEnds and MeansPrint: Book
1800-1849I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very fine poetry. As a whole, it is cumbrous & unwieldy....Elizabeth Barrett John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1850-1899"'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, ...A. C. Tait Benjamin DisraeliEndymionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Sept. 26th. [...] Read Keats' Endymion. [...] 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Do some Latin from Virgil [...] Finish Keats' Endymion.' ...Claire Clairmont John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'He marked personal details in Colvin's biography of Keats, particularly when they seemed to coincide with his own, noticing that Keats's mind was "naturally unapt for do...Wilfred Owen John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book


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