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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...'a Lady of Distinction' Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attributed to another, and a poem for his birthday] 'I send y...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonPaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...Anne Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scribbling, and seem'd so well pleased with my Rhymes, t...John, Baron Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, 1 January 1905: 'I was up [at Cambridge] for a fortnight, and read the Society [i.e. the Apostles] a paper, which, if I find it, I will...Edward Morgan ForsterpaperManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Professor W. T. Brande to John Murray, 2 January 1826: 'Sir H. Davy [...] is extremely sore at Mr. Daniell's paper which appeared in late numbers of [of "Brande's Jour...Sir Humphry Davy DaniellpaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society: 'I remember a special interest shown by your father in a paper contributed b...Rev. F. D. Maurice Rev. F. D. Mauricepaper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 's...Unknown
1800-1849Monday, 2 March 1829: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club and went to the Society in the evening. There was a paper read by Mr. Bauld engineer upon the Subject of the min... Bauldpaper on mining-compass designUnknown
1600-1699" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal]...Royal SocietyEdmond Halleypaper on the causes of the Noachian delugeUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too many to read your paper. I find it useful, suggestiv...Virginia Woolf Shena, Lady Simonpaper on women and warUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'George Gordon Lord Byron papersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754: 'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively papers in the World this winter from the mere motive of ...Catherine Talbot Richard Owen Cambridgepapers (i.e. essays)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his works. It makes them unreadible [sic] and of much less...Samuel Romilly Jeremy BenthamPapers Relative to Codification and Public Instruc...Print: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's sister Mercy, c. Christmas 1574] in mind when in his copy...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-read in September of 1577.'Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Paracelsus" into my hand, when I was staying at his hou...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given himself a great deal of kind trouble in finding the ...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received your poem [Sordello] [...] You much overrate my judg...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book


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