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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, for the 2d time in my life read Mde de Sevigne, 9 vols...Sarah Harriet Burney Baron E.L. de la Mothe - HoudancourtMemoires de Madame la comtesse de BarriPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[History plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Anna Grosvenor James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel John...Print: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Carlo BottaStoria d'ItaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney Ludovico Ariosto[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney William Shakespeare[plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them; for the thread of my interest in Botta's History ha...Sarah Harriet Burney PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Alexander KeithEvidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, d...Print: Book
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, which have remark...Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Bourrienne's Memoirs? Sick as I thought myself of Buonaparte and all that related to his tremendous though short-lived success (I always consider him as a ...Sarah Harriet Burney Louis-Antoine Fauvelet de BourrienneMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters with the utmost delight; & not the less so for seeing s...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles LambLetters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners...Sarah Harriet Burney Edward William LaneAccount of the manners and customs of the Modern E...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dr Nott has lent me a Work that I find very interesting, & which comes well after reading Wilkinson's Manners & Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; - It is, Lane's Manners...Sarah Harriet Burney John Gardner WilkinsonManners and Customs of the Ancient EgyptiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiPrint: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Benson Earle HillRecollections of an Artillery Officer including sc...Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, a...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiPrint: Book


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