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

	1800-1849	Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 November 1807: 'I attribute my cold to going to Jermyn Street [grandmother's London residence] last ni...	William Spencer	William Spencer	Latin epitaph on Mr Sargent	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Grammar ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Ruddiman	Latin Grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau on school life: 'We learned Latin from the old Eton grammar [...] Cicero, Virgil, and a little Horace were our main reading then'.	Pupils at Mr Perry's school		Latin grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816: 'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as far in the Grammar as "Propriae quae maribus"; I do...	Elizabeth Barrett		Latin grammar	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'In a letter to W[ordsworth] dated 16 April 1815 Lamb remarks: "Since I saw you I have had a treat in the reading way which does not come every day. The Latin Poems of V...	Charles Lamb	Vincent Bourne	Latin Poems	Unknown
	1800-1849	'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.' ...	Claire Clairmont	unknown	Latin text	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin...	Claire Clairmont	unknown	Latin text/s	Print: Book
	1850-1899	' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'	William Ewart Gladstone		Latin texts	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mi...	The Honourable Caroline Howe	unknown	Latin texts	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	The octogenarian Bewicke Blackburne to Alfred Tennyson, 6 August 1891: '"Long life to your honour," as Irish peasants used to say, and so say I, the man who was workin...	Bewicke Blackburne	Thomas Carlyle	Latter Days	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] One drawback is not being able to get new books till...	Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning		Latter-Day Pamphlets	Print: Pamphlet
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...	Helen Rawlings	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...	Charles E. Stansfield	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37 Alfred Rawlings in the Chair 1. The Secretary asked permission to reserve the reading o...	Helen Rawlings	William Fryer Harvey	Laughter and Ghosts	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Henri Bergson	Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and entertaining parts of common life, brought forward i...	Sydney Smith	John Galt	Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Arthur became interested in "humanity" when he discovered George Borrow's semi-autobiographical novel "Lavengro" (1851), which contains the author's adventures among gyp...	Arthur Symons	George Borrow	Lavengro	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...	Miss Marriage	George Borrow	Lavengro	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given by Mrs W.H. Smith from the Bible in Spain, Miss Marri...	E.P. Kaye	George Borrow	Lavengro	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, C...	Robert Louis Stevenson	unknown	law books	Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.

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