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

	1900-1945	'I am reading a delicious book called The Wandering Scholars - I wish I knew Latin.'	Vita Sackville-West	Helen Waddell	The Wandering Scholars	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had crazes – Georgette Heyer, D.K. Broster, Cronin, Axel Munt...	Hilary Spalding	Helen Waddell	Peter Abelard	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'March 11 [1914] Joined Hampstead Library £1..5. Books read March [1914:] M^rs Sewell His Grace of Osmond Helen Keller Out of the...	Harriet Bickersteth Cook	Helen Adams Keller	Out of the Dark: Essays, Letters and Addresses on ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your letter yesterday Evening, together with the several co...	William Wordsworth	Helen Maria Williams	The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L....	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	"Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ....	Horatio Nelson	Helen Maria Williams	Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in t...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she finds "too democratical" but praises as "exprest with d...	Elizabeth Carter	Helen Maria Williams	various books	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is a spirit in that class, in all countries more favour...	Joseph Hunter	Helen Maria Williams	A Tour in Switzerland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she gives short sketches of the government of the differe...	Joseph Hunter	Helen Maria Williams	A Tour in Switzerland	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the Rights of Man, and abominate those of Woman. Think ...	Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]	Helen Maria Williams	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr. Hoole put into his hands her beautiful "Ode on the...	Samuel Johnson	Helen Maria Williams	Ode on the Peace, An	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first only. at present the politics of France puzzle me...	Robert Southey	Helen Maria Williams	Letters from France	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great...	Isaac D'Israeli	Helen Maria Williams	Narrative of Events in France in 1815	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great...	Isaac D'Israeli	Helen Maria Williams	Narrative of Events in France in 1815	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Pray, when you see [Wilson] Follett, give him a warm greeting from me. His little book is one of these things one does not forget. I saw some time ago a study of Galswor...	Joseph Conrad	Helen Thomas Follett (and Wilson Follett)	Some Modern Novelists: Appreciations and Estimates	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show that by this time there was a tremendous demand on ...	Hannah Mitchell	Helena Swanwick	I have been Young	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829: 'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleasant recollections of him. The lamentation of Charic...	Elizabeth Barrett	Heliodorus	Aethiopica	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work w...	Joseph Barker	Helkiah Crooke	[medical folio]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Hendrik Brenkmann	Historia Pandectarum	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Attended the reading of The Poor Gentleman & was very pleased with the gentlemanly manners of most of the Amateurs. Agreed to play Gruff old Humphrey Dobbin and suppose...	men	Hendrik Conscience	The Poor Gentleman	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Attended a meeting of the Amateur Society in the evening when the Play to be performed was read throughout.'	men	Hendrik Conscience	The Poor Gentleman	Print: Book

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