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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816: 'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy in its most disorganized periods. I have not yet arri...George Grote Sismondihistory of Italy (vol. 1)Print: Book
1700-1799'The gum-trees were like those in the last bay, both in leaf and in producing a very small proportion of gum; on the branches of them and other trees were large ants' nes...Joseph Banks Sir Hans SloaneHistory of JamaicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: Book
1450-1499'In 1477 William Caxton presented his "History of Jason" to the 6-year-old future Edward V. Edward IV, the little prince's father, had instructed the child's governor tha...King Edward V William CaxtonHistory of JasonPrint: Book
1850-1899'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing for either Marianne, Meta, or myself to have an obl...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and FlorenceHenry Hart MilmanHistory of Latin ChristianityPrint: Book
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 Hart MilmanHistory of Latin ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I have been reading W[ilhelm]. F[riedrich]. S[chlegel] .....George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Letter to her daughter-in-law Ann, dated 4th June 1818: "Little Madge (Margaret Elizabeth Haskoll) told me that she had a little brother now and she prayed for him. I ...Lydia Haskoll anonHistory of Little Goody Two-shoesPrint: Book
1700-1799In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance...Francis Douce John WhitakerHistory of ManchesterPrint: Book
'We talked of antiquarian researches. JOHNSON. "All that is really known of the ancient state of Britain is contained in a few pages. We can know no more than what the ol...Samuel Johnson John WhitakerHistory of ManchesterPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'George Eliot Pierre Victor RenouardHistory of MedicinePrint: Book
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 RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1700-1799'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] manner'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and al...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'. History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns wit...Jane Sewell unknownHistory of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being f...Jane Sewell [unknown]History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Burney likewise has experienced his [Johnson's] sportive Humour; when he shewed him his Book about Musick and enquired his Opinion concerning it; the Words are well arra...Samuel Johnson Charles BurneyHistory of MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Gilbert BurnetHistory of my Own TimePrint: Book


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