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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does not appear to me that there is much that is new.'Mary Berry ?Walter ?ScottLife of Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
1800-1849'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked after tea with Mrs Cole a new walk down Penny-black La...John Cole DelanyLife of King DavidPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mark L.] Reed judges that W[ordsworth] and D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied extracts from the Life [of Lady Guion] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... by 29 Sept 1800...Wordsworth FamilyJeanne Marie Bouvieres de la Motte GuyonLife of Lady Guion, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives general satisfaction [...] I must thank you again for y...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryLife of Lady RussellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry's Life of Lady Russell] [...] I have read over the ...Mr Wishaw Mary BerryLife of Lady RussellPrint: Book
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1800-1849'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infin...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lord Byron in the light he best deserves - Generous ope...William Godwin Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it would very much amuse Ld Grey as it is the history alm...Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am a good deal charmed by Jeffrey's letters; they have some of the taste of Lamb's. The life is dull, as Lord Cockburn cannot resist giving a long character of everyon...Emma Darwin Henry Thomas CockburnLife of Lord JeffreyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone with G.'George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1700-1799'Concluded a second reading of Roscoe's "Lorenzo de Medici", which fades considerably on a reperusal...'Thomas Green William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Locke & the life of Lorenzo - Shelley reads it and finishes it - In the evenng he reads 25th chap. of Gibbon - read several odes of Horace'Mary Godwin William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'Mary Godwin William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the life of Lorenzo - shelley [sic] reads the appendix'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the MagnificentPrint: Book
1800-1849'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words...Thomas Carlyle William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 volsPrint: Book


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