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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by the author of "The Manoeuvring Mother"] The name m...Elizabeth Barrett [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anonHistory of a Flirt, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately.Adam Mackie History of AberdeenPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'.Fanny Kemble GrahameHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin William RobertsonHistory of America
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Wiliam RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calcula...Jane Baillie Welsh unknownHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated characters devised for the purpose, I had a method of my...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Percy Bysshe Shelley John GilliesHistory of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conque...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of ...George Eliot Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'In early Oct. 1810 C[oleridge] wrote to W[ordsworth]: "I send the Brazil which has entertained & instructed me."'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert SoutheyHistory of BrazilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nat...John Cole Thomas BenickHistory of British BirdsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Seebohm has nothing about this chucking cry or call [of a species of snipe], nor has Shaw in his book on the snipe in the Fur and Feather series. I doubt if any of t...William Henry Hudson Henry SeebohmHistory of British BirdsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to think that it will be extremely curious, and very well ...Samuel Romilly James MillHistory of British India, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell William RobertsonHistory of Charles the FifthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of Charles V.Print: Book
1850-1899'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha...Lillian Faithfull and motherH. T. BuckleHistory of CivilisationPrint: Book


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