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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849:

'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...		Eliza Paterson Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, in note accompanying copy of Bronte's novel Shirley:

'When C. B. first read Deerbrook he tasted a new...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burnet (Own Time, began).William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Samuel KnightLife of Dr John ColetPrint: Book
1800-1849

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing ...

George Eliot Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton's Introduction.William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology...Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard ...Print: Book


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