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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	'I lie in bed, and watch the fire on the ceiling, and hear the clock strike, and think how delicious it will be when you come to stay here - I read Haydon, and an excelle...	Vita Sackville-West	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...	Margaret L. LLoyd	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...	Roger Moore	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2...	Roger Moore	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading” Meeting held at Oakdene: Northcourt Av.–15.2.38 ...	Roger Moore	Benjamin Robert Haydon	Autobiography	Print: Book
	1900-1945	[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics...	questionaire respondent	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...	Members of the XII Book club	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...	John Ridges	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon the correctness of the bases of the argument of the ...	Frederick J. Edminson	Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree	Poverty, A Study of Town Life	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat green pease, one by one, with a tooth-pick, a meth...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...	Thomas Carlyle	Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford	Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...	Sydney Smith	Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford	Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's "T...	Edmund Gosse	Benjamin Wills Newton	Thoughts on the Apocalypse	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Benson Earle Hill	Recollections of an Artillery Officer including sc...	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'	Benjamin Britten	Benvenuto Cellini	Autobiography	Print: BookManuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. as we travelled.'	John Marsh	Benvenuto Cellini	The life of Benvenuto Cellini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Saturday [...] January 7th. [...] Begin reading Gothe's translation of Benvenuto Cellini's Memoirs.' [records another reading from this text, with Chretien-Hermann ...	Claire Clairmont	Benvenuto Cellini	Eine Geschichte des XVI Jahrhunderts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	One can say of the more reticent British that, as you come to know them, some are discovered and some are found out. My father was of those who are discovered. 'The...	Robert Stark	Benvenuto Cellini	Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's Inferno] -- but except her father Guido's tomb -- an...	George Gordon Lord Byron	Benvenuto da Imola	Commentary on Dante, Commedia	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 19 July 1797: 'The old Lady Strathmore has some curious books. I hope to get from her library the Amadigi of Tassos father...	Robert Southey	Bernando Tasso	Amadis of Gaul	Print: Book

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