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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read 16th Canto of Ariosto - Read Gibbon - S. reads the Memorabilia of Zenophon'Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia SocratisPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Memorabilia - walk out & Read 250 lines of the 8th book of the Aenied[sic]'.Percy Bysshe Shelley XenophonMemorabilia socratisPrint: Book
1800-1849Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry): 'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...] I have bethought me on seeing lately some volumes...Walter Scott George Gordon Lord ByronmemorandaManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And with great joy I do find, looking over my Memorandum-books, which are now of great use to me and do fully reward me for all my care in keeping them, that I am not li...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysMemorandums and Conclusions of the Navy BoardManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I could have given him a fuller sympathy -- but there were...Elizabeth Barrett Las CasesMemorial de Saint HelenePrint: Book
1800-1849'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Turnadot and Napoleon's memoirs - I assure you I have ...Jane Baillie Welsh Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las CasesMemorial de Sainte HelenePrint: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart Emmanuel Las CasesMemorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private ...Print: Book
MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am glad he liked shooting as much as I do."George Otto Trevelyan Charles James FoxMemorials and correspondence of Charles James FoxPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Depar...Mary Birch Hannah MoreMemorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and oPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suppose you read long ago the Hare ''Memorials of a Quiet Life''. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness...'Emma Darwin Augustus J. C. HareMemorials of a Quiet LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838: 'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Milnes's Poems just printed for private circulation. T...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Monckton MilnesMemorials of a Residence on the Continent, and His...Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale Memorials of FoxPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, c.29 August 1836: 'Mrs Lenox Conyngham's name had come to my ears but it was not familiar to them, -- & your brief account...Elizabeth Barrett H.F. ChorleyMemorials of Mrs HemansPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844: 'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting memoir of Mrs Hemans by Mr Chorley -- full of int...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleyMemorials of Mrs HemansPrint: Book
1800-1849'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 Cer...John Stuart Mill XenophonMemorials of SocratesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeMemorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thom...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John StrypeMemorials of the Most Reverend Father in God, Thom...Print: Book
1800-1849'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a...Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe James Somerville SomervilleMemorie of the Somervilles being a history of the...Manuscript: MS book
1900-1945'The readng of "Memories and Notes" has been one continuous delight. As you know I have been privileged to see some of these papers even in typescript and some in their ...Joseph Conrad Sidney ColvinMemories and Notes of Persons and Places, 1852-191...Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memories and Studies, Walter de la Mare's The Return -- sup...Edward Morgan Forster William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book


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