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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I found him in ecstasy over your husband's book. He said it was the most attractive reading he had met with; that notwithstanding his ignorance of natural history he fou...J.C.L. Sismondi Charles DarwinJournal of researches into the geology and natural...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Darwin, writing in praise of the gaucho in his “Voyage of a Naturalist” says that if a gaucho cuts your throat he does it like a gentleman - even as a small boy I...William Henry Hudson Charles DarwinJournal of Researches into the Geology and Natural...Print: Book
1800-1849'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though she had told [John Cam] Hobhouse that it would have b...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is executed, and after the momentary pain in part which ...Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book contained! Poor Shelley is made to play quite a secondary part [goes on...Claire Clairmont Thomas MedwinJournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted ...Print: Book
1700-1799'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'Elizabeth Gurney Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of...Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at l...Elizabeth Gurney Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of...Print: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-health. Read ? ?Journal of the Plague Year? (Defoe)'. Gerald Moore Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1700-1799'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire of London - De Foe's Plague is still stronger but th...Hester Lynch Thrale Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Suetonius and Defoe on the Plague'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Defoe'Mary Shelley Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague Year: Being Observations or ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney Henry EllisJournal of the proceedings of the late embassy to ...Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn Henry EllisJournal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to ...Print: Book
1850-1899'I studied my [either Persian or Arabic] grammar this morning and went to the London Library where I looked through volumes and volumes of Asiatic Societies and found lit...Gertrude Bell Journal of the Royal Asiatic SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of the beginning for "The Life of Lady Russell," which ...Mr Wishaw George Gordon, Lord Byronjournal of travels in Switzerland (extracts)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John PalmerJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe...Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal PolitiquePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'John Ruskin [unknown]Journal pour tousPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Robinson gave an introductory explanation of money and...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book


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