√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it... Sarah Harriet Burney John McLeod Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship t... Print : Book1800-1849 'Have you Cap. Beecheys voyage to the Pacific? if you have not, I will buy it, as it contains some most excellent Meteorological Journals?' Charles Darwin Frederick W Beechey Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of wo... Benjamin Newton James Hingston Tuckey Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za Print : Book1900-1945 'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of the first Rajah's enterprise and even by the lecture [... Joseph Conrad Rodney Mundy Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to ... Print : Book1800-1849 Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end
italics], written with great... Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria Williams Narrative of Events in France in 1815 Print : Book1800-1849 Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end
italics], written with great... Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria Williams Narrative of Events in France in 1815 Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' Benjamin Newton Vasily Golovnin Narrative of my captivity in Japan Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Louvets memoires' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the dangers to which I have been expo... Print : Book1800-1849 'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the dangers to which I have been expo... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Louvet's memoirs all day' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the dangers to which I have been expo... Print : Book1800-1849 'Finish Louvet's memoirs' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the dangers to which I have been expo... Print : Book1700-1799 " ... in March 1796 D[orothy] W[ordsworth] reported that 'I have also read lately Madame Roland's Memoirs, Louvet and some other french things - very entertaining.'" Dorothy Wordsworth Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray Narrative of the Dangers to Which I have been Expo... Print : Book1850-1899 'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer... Thomas Burt Frederick Douglass Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an Am... Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1800-1849 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken."' George Gordon Lord Byron Giovanni Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p... Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Baptista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1800-1849 Wednesday, 5 April 1826:
'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less
botheration about mineralogy botany and so forth tha... Walter Scott Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Afric... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Fitzwilliam Owen Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Afri... Print : Book1850-1899 '"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).' Mary Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book1850-1899 '... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe... William Ewart Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book
