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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then sent by his friends. Source author notes that Wilde...Oscar Wilde Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of CivilisationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ...Thomas Jones Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker: "One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the room of seller before mentioned was -Acts of Parliament...anon History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him ...John Wordsworth unknownHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had declared him obsolete. Kathleen Woodward read Gibbon's...Kathleen Woodward Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.Thomas Carlyle David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Tobias SmollettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale J. A. FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest.Adam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' EnglandAdam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intoxication from Mozart and Beethoven than any common mo...anon Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.? Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford Oliver GoldsmithHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Rapin de ThoyrasHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my mind and excites noble feelings of every kind.'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book


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