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

	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'.	Robert Story	Isaac Watts	Divine Songs for Children	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'William Dodd [...] exposed to the full impact of the [eighteenth/nineteenth-century] factory system, found that once he had begun to read books on "several branches of n...	William Dodd			Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Samuel Bamford never forgot the sensation of reading a volume of [...] [Robert Burns's] life and writings whilst working as a porter and warehouseman in Manchester'.	Samuel Bamford	Robert Burns	volume containing life and writings of Burns	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'She [Felicia Hemans, nee Browne] was early a reader of Shakespeare; and, by way of securing shade and freedom from inte...	Felicia Browne	William Shakespeare	plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & have livd [sic] and died happy'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	Jacques Cazotte	Le diable amoreux	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of ...	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Crabbe	Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Tristram Shandy might say requires a Chapter in itself'.	Lady Caroline Lamb	Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke of Orleans--for you are a little like them all'..	Lady Caroline Lamb	Choderlos de Laclos	Les Liaisons Dangereuses	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Homer	unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Dante Alighieri	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Virgil	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	John Milton	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Edmund Spenser	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Thomas Gray	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Oliver Goldsmith	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Toquato Tasso	unknown	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Jonathan Swift	unknown	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather terrific & in Monk Lewis's style--all the people whet...	Lady Caroline Lamb	Mathew (Monk) Lewis	The Monk	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mi...	The Honourable Caroline Howe	unknown	Classical Greek texts	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mi...	The Honourable Caroline Howe	unknown	Latin texts	Print: Book

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