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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most strongly of all. So Annabella waded through Madoc. ...Anne Isabella Milbanke Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children's books as ther are now...Now, among those very stupid old-fashioned boy's books was one which taught me [...Charles Kingsley John AikinEvenings at homePrint: Book
1800-1849'...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, under the title of "Eyes and No Eyes", which some of my...John Ruskin John AikinEvenings at homePrint: Book
1800-18495 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, with the assistance of my good and intelligent governe...John Birch John LockeEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt struggling with the encombrance of all the sciences....Lucy Aikin Alexander von HumboldtPersonal Narrative of TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the suitability of philosophical reading for women.Lucy Aikin Sir J. Mackintosh[a text on ethical philosophy]Print: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been ...Lucy Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been...Martha Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Eaton Stannard BarrettSix Weeks at Long'sPrint: Book
1800-1849'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succession.'Philip and Emily GosseSir Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a young man in America, he had been deeply impressed by "Salathiel", a pious prose romance of that then popular writer, the Rev. George Croly."Philip Gosse Rev. George CrolySalathielPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-solicitor's daughter; for relaxation condes...Anne Isabella Milbanke Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
1800-1849'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des dreissigj?hrigen KriegsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (...Thomas Carlyle John Scott'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Blackwood's magazinePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for eve...Thomas Carlyle Jean AubuissonTraite de geognoisePrint: Book
1800-1849'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both i...John Clare Daniel FenningThe universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy gu...Print: Book
1800-1849'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book


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