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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew w...James Hogg Charles HowardHistorical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard FamilyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Howard book I had read, but had not a copy of it. I have the Sonnet to Sharpe, which I admired greatly for its simplicity, and truly antique style, long ere I knew w...James Hogg Charles HowardHistorical Anecdotes of Some of the Howard FamilyPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening to the office, where I stayed late reading Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the late quarrels in this kingdom. And so h...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my conditi...Samuel Pepys John RusthworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'After a little discourse with him, I took coach and home, calling upon my booksellers for two books, Rushworths and Scobells "collecions" - I shall make the King pay for...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and spent an hour or two reading Rushworth; and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office and to read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine; and then to do a little business agai...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, and I mightily pleased with his discourse, by which I alway[s] learn something, I to read a little in Rushworth; and so home to supper to my wife'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'Then home to dinner; and after dinner to read in Rushworths "Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and u...Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt Historical educatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on Italian literature, actually by Ugo Foscolo] is per...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch...Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Italy -- some part of it the best he ever wrote ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Ch...Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel WraxallHistorical MemoirsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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1800-1849		"For [Sir James] Fellowes, a prospective biographer ... [Hester Lynch Piozzi] annotated books by and about herself: Nathaniel Wraxall's Historical Memoirs of My Own Time ...Hester Lynch Piozzi Nathaniel WraxallHistorical Memoirs of My Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843: 'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of England, I have read -- & they seemed to me to show...Elizabeth Barrett Hannah LawranceHistorical Memoirs of the Queens of England from t...Print: Book
1850-1899'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyHistorical Memorials of CanterburyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottHistorical Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I...Lucy Lyttelton historical studiesPrint: Unknown


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