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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan Andrew LangLectures on LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago....Anne Lister Dr ScudamoreLectures on physiologyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J...Thomas Carter James MontgomeryLectures on poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle Hugh BlairLectures on RhetoricPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, and a taste for the most part timidly correct, I can ...Thomas Green Hugh BlairLectures on rhetoric and belles lettresPrint: Book
1800-1849From Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of her schoolfriends Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor:

'A time came that both Charlotte and Mary were so proficient in scho...		Charlotte Brontë Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read well) as soon as I have finished dear Sam Brown's v...Harriet Martineau Sam BrownLectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scienti...Print: Book
1800-1849'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and liturgy" being her principal vade mecum [sic] - this l...Elizabeth Kemble unknownLectures on the Bible and liturgyPrint: Book
1800-1849'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the Church Catechis...'The Parson' Thomas SeckerLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonThomas SeckerLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In this state of affairs I sent to my late partners for Secker's Lectures on the Catechism, Gilpin's Lectures on the same, Wilson's Sermons, 4vols. and Gilpin's Sermons....James and Mary LackingtonWilliam GilpinLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English Comic WritersPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, May 1853:

'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated. I tho...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayLectures on the English Humorists of the Eighteent...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]'John Clare William HazlittLectures on the English PoetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I know it will give him. It will come to him at the s...Walter Savage Landor William GaskellLectures on the Lancashire DialectUnknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]read[end italics] it tomorrow -- and like metaphysics...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poetry knows the place of his soul [...] I have gone t...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the books I read then for the first time was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres [sic], who had been ...William Henry Hudson Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1850-1899'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.George Eliot and John CrossFriedrich Max MullerLectures on the Science of LanguagePrint: Book


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