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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart George Anne BellamyMemoirs of George Anne BellamyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sophia BaddeleyMemoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley Print: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie-Jeanne RolandMemoirs of Madame RolandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, A FoundlingPrint: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...James Boswell George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I talked to him [Johnson] of Forster's "Voyage to the South Seas", which pleased me; but I found he did not like it. "Sir, (said he,) there is a great affectation of fin...Samuel Johnson George ForsterVoyage Round the World in his Britannic Majesty's ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][a Spanish grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dicti...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][a Spanish dictionary]Print: Book
1850-1899'I tell you it [Robinson Crusoe] is a grand book . . . I am reading it a second time, and I think I like it better than I did at first. Every boy should get it. You know ...Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just exactly into the kid of disrepuble [sic] society one...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mr AideRitaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I do not like the Expression that Regeneration must pr...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book
1850-1899'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Currer Bell [pseud.]Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been to...Sydney Smith Mary BerrySome Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, L...Print: Book
1700-1799'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It i...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingUnder the DeodarsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I then read a book of Kipling's, "Under the Derdens [sic] ", which I had brought home with me and will send to you as soon as Grandmamma [Lady Olliffe] has read it. It i...Gertrude Bell Rudyard KiplingSoldiers ThreePrint: Book
1700-1799'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][French]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficiently to what I am reading, to remember at all accura...Elizabeth Gurney John MasonSelf-knowledge: A TreatisePrint: Book
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concernin...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown


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