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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807: 'This morning I got up between 8 and 9, read 500 lines of Milton's Paradise Lost...Lady Harriet Cavendish John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 3 August 1807: 'I walked an hour and read 50 pages of Bossuet ths morning before breakfast, wh...Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet[possibly] 'Sur l'histoire universelle'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807: 'George's reading goes on prosperously and Georgiana is the quickest little cre...George Howard  Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807, on her nephew and nieces' progress in education: 'George's reading goes on pros...Lady Harriet Cavendish and Caroline Howard  Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 12 August 1807: 'I have been, since I last wrote, going on with my [italics]usual[end italics]...Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 16 August 1807: 'I got up this morning at 6 and finished Bossuet -- I am very much pleased wit...Lady Harriet Cavendish Bossuet Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 29 August 1807: 'I find Modern Europe really very entertaining, at least as much as is quite i...Lady Harriet Cavendish Russell'Modern Europe'Print: Book
1800-1849'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", and my day has been rather profitable.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Alain-Rene Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'John Ruskin James GaliffeItaly and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in...Print: Book
1800-1849'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they should not be true'John Ruskin Captain Frederick MarryatDiary in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book want...John Ruskin Louis AgassizRecherches sur les poissons fossilesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unworthy of being one of Scott's heroines. The book want...John Ruskin Walter ScottKenilworth: a romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xx...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French revolution. Good deal of inaccurate English, but clever...John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'John Ruskin Jacob BryantTreatise on the Authenticity of the ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; at present I feel disposed to place this work above ...John Ruskin Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book


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