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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-184918,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellThe elements of curves: designed for the use of st...Print: Book
1800-184925 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in aftn & evg [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellAn elementary treatise on the geometry of curves a...Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Finished Burton [...]William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divi...Print: Book
1800-1849'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over th...William Graham John A. CarlyleOn Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure — Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher — there are on the t...John Keats Beaumont & Fletcher The Maid's TragedyPrint: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Thomas MooreTom Cribb's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1800-1849"I am writing this on the Maid's tragedy which I have read since tea with great pleasure - Besides this volume of Beaumont & Fletcher - there are on the table two vol...John Keats Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr. B. B. Popplewell rose to propose “the health of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative members of the House of Commons,” and after eulogizing the pu...Benjamin Briggs Popplewell Robert Story'I was bred in a cot' from Songs and Lyrical PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'3rd mo. 15th. In looking over the events of today, I believe I suffered loss from reading the light and frivolous contents of a newspaper. May it serve as a caution for ...Edward Foster Brady  Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dickens ... recalled that as a schoolboy he used to buy the Terrific Register, "making myself unspeakably miserable, and frightening my very wits out of my head, for the...Charles Dickens The Terrific RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In a mill town in the late 1840's, a group of girl operatives met at five o'clock in the morning to read Shakespeare for an hour before going to work.'William Shakespeare Print: Book
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We find ''Pickwick'' not at all too low for our taste, and it reads aloud much better than to oneself.'Emma Wedgewood and Wedgewood/Allen familyCharles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Disputes run very high here upon the subject of ''Violet''. Some of the party are quite convinced it is written by a woman and have some suspicions it is Mrs Marsh ......Emma Wedgwood Marian Dora Malet BeasleyViolet; or the DanseusePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have taken to no deeper study than Capt. Head's gallop which I have never read before. I am afraid it won't instruct me much.'Emma Wedgwood Francis HeadRapid Journeys across the PampasPrint: Book
1800-1849'My mother told us how when she was only five, she began ''Paradise Lost'', but soon asked her mother to finish it for her, and how nice it was of her mother not to ref...Emma Wedgwood John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Aunt Fanny [Allen] is in a rapture with ''Sartor'' and feels quite convinced that Teufelsdröckh is meant for Coleridge [...] For my part it is such very hard reading t...Emma Wedgwood Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am disappointed in the "Life". His dull sons have put in such a quantity of repetition that one is quite weary of the same religious sentiment repeated 50 times over i...Emma Wedgwood Robert Isaac & Samuel WilberforceLife of William WiberforcePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter: 31 July 1837]

'Mamma read aloud all the poison for us in your last letter. I suppose she thought M. Moulton's compliments will not ruin us for life.'		Emma Wedgwood Emma Sismondi[Letter]Manuscript: Letter


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