√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Muratori - greek - finish the Rebellion of Ireland' Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Ireland Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Robertson History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth Print : Book1800-1849 'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson' Percy Bysshe Shelley William Robertson History of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a ... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Robert Watson History of the Reign of Philip II Print : Book1850-1899 'An old idea, first started while I was reading your history of Scotland, has just been revived over your Queen Anne, which I am in the heart of, with sincere pleasure.' Robert Louis Stevenson John Hill Burton History of the Reign of Queen Anne Print : Book1850-1899 [Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'. George Eliot [pseud] John Hill Burton history of the reign of Queen Anne, A Print : Book1800-1849 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to... Sarah Harriet Burney William Robertson History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V Print : Book1800-1849 'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha... Sarah Harriet Burney William Robertson History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 28 May 1853:
Charlotte Brontë Alphonse de Lamartine History of the Restoration of Monarchy in France Print : Book1800-1849 'I have just received my dear Mackintosh's 'History of the Revolution' ... I cannot read it with quiet nerves.' Jessie Sismondi James Mackintosh History of the Revolution in England in 1688 Print : Book1700-1799 '...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 Rene Aubert Vertot History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned b... Print : Book1800-1849 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo... John Stuart Mill John Rutty History of the Rise and Progress of the People cal... Print : Book1800-1849 'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having onl... William Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment o... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Clarkson History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment ... Print : proof1850-1899 'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'. George Eliot [pseud.] Simon Ockley History of the Saracens Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon History of the Seven Champions Print : Book1850-1899 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat... George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau History of the Thirty Years Peace Print : Book1600-1699 [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 Paul Rycaut History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 t... Print : Book1900-1945 MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the external", Sir George writes: "High time that you d... George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop Motley History of the United Netherlands Print : Book1900-1945 '16th September 1928
I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to acquire the habit of taking notes when reading a boo... Gerald Moore Cecil Chesterton History of the United States Print : Book
