√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Macdiarmid Lives of British Statesmen, & c Print : Book1700-1799 '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th... James Boswell Izaak Walton Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa... Print : Book1700-1799 '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th... David Dalrymple, lord Hailes Izaak Walton Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa... Print : Book1700-1799 '[letter from Boswell, to Johnson] It gives me much pleasure to hear that a republication of "Isaac Walton's Lives" is intended. You have been in a mistake in thinking th... Samuel Johnson Izaak Walton Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa... Print : Book1700-1799 'He talked of Isaac Walton's "Lives", which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's "Life", he said, was the most perfect of them'.
Samuel Johnson Izaak Walton Lives of Dr John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr Richa... Print : Book1800-1849 Mary Lamb to Mrs Morgan and Charlotte Brant, 22 May 1815:
'Godwin has just published a new book ... Wordsworth has just now looked into it and found these words "All mod... William Wordsworth William Godwin Lives of Edward and John Philips, Nephews and Pupi... Print : Book1800-1849 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art' John Ruskin Allan Cunningham Lives of eminent British painters Print : Book1800-1849 'Tuesday Jany. 11th. Finish the Life of Lycurgus -- Begin that of Numa'. Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Lycurgus and Numa Print : Book1800-1849 'Wednesday Jany. 12. [...] Read & finish the Life of Numa -- Begin Solon [makes notes from this reading]'. Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Numa and Solon Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon Clark Lives of Pirates Print : Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different Lives of the Poets.' George Gordon Lord Byron various Lives of poets Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 'Sunday Jany. 9th. Finish the Life of Romulus and half that of Lycurgus.' Claire Clairmont Plutarch Lives of Romulus and Lycurgus Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Lives of the British Admirals Print : Book1700-1799 'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there' James Boswell [unknown] Lives of the convicts Print : Book, Pamphlet1800-1849 From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 16 September 1845, at 3 Park Villas, Richmond ('Visit to a friend, Miss Hooper.'):
'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused our... Elizabeth Missing Sewell and other guests and household members at 3 Park Villas, Richmond Lives of the English Saints Print : Book1800-1849 'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses ... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...' Robert Louis Stevenson John Lord Campbell Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc Print : Book[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any note we can treat of': 'bio. Prin & Shepherd'. Anon Peter Cunningham Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonso... Manuscript : Pamphlet1800-1849 'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I remember the whole of Herodotus, and of Xenophon?s C... John Stuart Mill Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers Print : Book1800-1849 'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, including his "Lives of the players", and once every year I ... James Glass Bertram John Galt Lives of the players Print : Book
