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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a...George Gregory Charles LyellPrinciples of GeologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a...George Gregory [book of world history]Print: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Lawrence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his letter to [William] Mathews of 3 Aug. 1791, W[ordsworth] somewhat effacingly claims only to have read "in our language three volumes of Tristram Shandy, and two o...William Wordsworth Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale"....George Saintsbury Walter ScottWandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson Virgil8th EcloguePrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson [n/a][Greek Testaments]Print: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...Samuel Johnson Virgil1st GeorgicPrint: Book
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the eccles...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[diary]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, that the disease had killed upwards of 3,000 people ...William Richard Grahame n/aDublin Evening PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]'Arnold Bennett H. G. WellsNew Machiavelli, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonThe Lotos-EatersUnknown
1850-1899'In January [1892] Dr Hubert Parry stayed with us at Farringford, for he wanted to hear my father read "The Lotos-Eaters" which he was setting to music. 'For the first...Alfred Tennyson Alfred TennysonOde on the Duke of WellingtonUnknown
1700-1799'In January, 1778, Mrs. Burney [Frances Burney's stepmother], who was glancing over the newspaper at the breakfast table, read aloud the advertisement of a new book, "E...Elizabeth Burney announcement of publication of EvelinaPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In July [1858] we stayed at Little Holland House, Kensington, with the Prinseps; and here my father began "The Fair Maid of Astolat," and read aloud "The Grandmother."'Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson'The Grandmother'Unknown
1850-1899'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitch), a friend of Osborne. Interested in this novelist...Arthur Symons Leith Derwent [pseud.]Circe's LoversPrint: Book
1850-1899'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Skimpole'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]'s notebook ... 'Sara Hutchinson Martin MartinDescription of the Western Islands of Scotland, APrint: Book
1700-1799'In later years, W[ordsworth] recalled that under Agostino Isola "I translated the Vision of Mirza, and two or three other papers of the Spectator, into Italian" [Prose W...William Wordsworth Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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