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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Aphra Behn, 'Epitaph on William Fairfax'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Aphra BehnEpitaph on William FairfaxUnknown
1600-1699
1700-1799		Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that ...anon Aphra Behn[?]OroonokoPrint: Book
1700-1799Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquainted by an old lady of family, who assured him that ...anon Aphra Behn[?]OroonokoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first an...Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) Aphra BennDelphinePrint: Unknown
1900-1945(1) 'I have just started the "Argonautica" the Greek poem on the same subject,and though I haven't got very far — only in fact to the launching of the Argo — it is shap...Clive Staples Lewis Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaPrint: Book
1800-18497/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess...Amelia Opie Apostle PaulAddress to AgrippaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marria...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrettletter to Elizabeth Barrett BrowningManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October 1846, on receiving her father, brother's, and sisters' responses to her marria...Robert Browning Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrettletter to Elizabeth Barrett BrowningManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarborough Album, and in soliciting contributions of a poe...John Cole Archdeacon WranghanLines on the sea bathing infirmary at ScarboroughManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.Anne Lister Archibald AlisonSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam...Samuel Bailey Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and be...Thomas Green Archibald AlisonEssays on the nature and principles of tastePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Archibald AlisonEssays on the Nature and Principles of TastePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history are so dreadfully dry, after one has been writing a...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Archibald AlisonHistory of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDC...Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference fo...Elizabeth Hamilton Archibald Allison[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton Archibald CampbellA Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812Print: Book
1800-1849Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern OceanAdam Mackie Archibald ConstableMiscellanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Received a letter from Sir W. Knighton mentioning that the King acquiesced in my proposal that Constable's Miscellany should be dedicated to him.Walter Scott Archibald ConstableConstable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Pu...Unknown
1800-1849'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written: I shall always read anything which you write. The ...Sydney Smith Archibald Constable [ed.]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sat. Cold day ... angry ... Reading Experiences in Fr-Ge War 1870 by Archibald Forbes.'William Thomas Archibald ForbesMy Experiences of the War Between France and Germa...Print: Book


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