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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818: 'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not ye...	Elizabeth Barrett	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837: 'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's Tears," about Queen Victoria's weeping during the ...	Elizabeth Barrett	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Age of Bronze	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843: 'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sweet girl! [...] We go to Harrow today to see Byron...	Mary Mordwinoff Haydon	George Gordon, Lord Byron	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last year [...] You cant question Nelly [Woolf's cook] much...	Virginia Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Lord Byron's Correspondence	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'	Virginia Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read su...	Leonard Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	'Turkish Tales'	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902: '[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. The last is a stiff job -- my God I've never read su...	Leonard Woolf	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Letters	Print: Book
	1800-1849	John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819: 'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little offensive. It is by no means worse than "Childe Harol...	John Wilson Croker	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Don Juan: cantos I-II	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes from me." My father remembered her reading to him, wh...	Mary Turner	George Gordon, Lord Byron	The Prisoner of Chillon	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue 18th Sept, 1944 A. Bruce Dilks in the chair. [...] 2. The minutes of the last meeting were read ...	George Goyder	George Goyder	[notes or script for a lecture on William Blake, i...	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.'	William Upcott	George Gregory	The Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. Chatt	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[account of attending the lectures on metals advertised in the "Iris"] ...all this I had read before ... in the "Sup. Ency." [supplement to the "Encyclopedia Britanica"] ...	Joseph Hunter	George Gregory	The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated	Print: Book
	1800-1849	' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote ...	Harriet Martineau	George Grey	Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northw...	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue: 17. IV 40. F. E. Pollard in the chair 1. Minutes of last read & approved. [...] 5. As an introduction to our...	Bruce Dilks	George Grossmith	The Diary of a Nobody	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...	George Eliot [pseud.]	George Grote	unknown	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litteratu...	George Eliot [pseud]	George Grote	[probably] History of Greece	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.	George Eliot [pseud]	George Grote	[on Sicilian History]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'	George Eliot [pseud]	George Grote	[probably] History of Greece	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Grote on the Sophists'.	George Eliot [pseud]	George Grote	History of Greece	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much as I do; but nobody I see had any clear idea of that...	Harriet Martineau	George Grote	Plato, and the other Companions of Socrates	Print: Book

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