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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'Mary Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward GibbonHistory of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empir...Print: Book
1800-1849'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'.Adam Mackie Daniel DefoeHistory of the Devil or The Political History of tPrint: Book
1800-1849From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847): '[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choice of, which he would take care to send to me [for re...John Barrow De GuignesHistory of the Dutch Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, in Goldsmith's "History of Animated Nature", in which...Mr Maclaurin Oliver GoldsmithHistory of the Earth and Animated NaturePrint: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Oliver GoldsmithHistory of the Earth and Animated NaturePrint: Book
1850-189914 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles...Lady Charlotte Schreiber LeckyHistory of the Eighteenth Century in EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton HerodianHistory of the Empire from the Death of Marcus Print: Book
1900-1945'I’ve finished The History of the Fabian Society and I now return it to you with many thanks for the pleasure it has given me.'Herbert Edward Read Edward Reynolds PeaseHistory of the Fabian SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had him [Dean Swift] all to myself for near three hours, during which time he made me read to him the Annals of the four last years of the Reign of Queen [italics] Ann...Laetitia Pilkington Jonathan SwiftHistory of the Four Last Years of the QueenManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Samuel Johnson Jonathan SwiftHistory Of the Four last years Of the QueenPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rose [in a debate about the relative worth of Scottish and English writers] to make sure of the Victory - named Ferguson on Civil Society: I do not says Johnson perceive...Dr Delap Jonathan SwiftHistory Of the Four last years Of the QueenPrint: Book
1800-1849"4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can ...Amelia Opie Thomas CarlyleHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first ...Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays...Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War.Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801.Adam Mackie C.H. GiffordHistory of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said P...Thomas Carlyle Joseph PlantaHistory of the Helvetic ConfederacyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron William CoxeHistory of the House of AustriaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening Shelley reads Abbe Barruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelHistory of the IlluminatiPrint: Book


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