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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting with Charles Lamb when Wordsworth came in, with fume o...William Wordsworth Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... you remember he would not believe that I had written ...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Brougham[speech]Unknown
1800-1849'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute necessity for its being so. Wit and declamation would be...Sydney Smith Henry BroughamA Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHA...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disproportions &c; and I doubt whether he understands Condi...Harriet Martineau Henry BuckleHistory of the Civilisation in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Chrononhotonthologus'Mary Godwin Henry CareyChrononhotonthologos; the most tragical tragedy th...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymn...Henry CocktonThe Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventrilo...Print: Book
1700-1799'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religion, extravagant devotion, etc. in which are many ver...James Lackington Henry CoventryPhilemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false reli...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st Canto of Tasso'.Claire Clairmont Henry CoxePicture of Italy: Being a Guide to the Antiquities...Print: Book
1850-1899'Crabb Robinson's Diary is a blessing and I can talk with him for a few minutes any time and feel refreshed. I almost think he will set me reading ''The Excursion''!...'Emma Darwin Henry Crabb RobinsonDiary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney Henry EllisJournal of the proceedings of the late embassy to ...Print: Book
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books: '[The Marquess of Abercorn] returns Walpole, as he says since the age of fi...Marquess of Abercorn Henry EllisJournal of the Proceedings of the late Embassy to ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Then there is Mr Brand's lantern and his Highland cloak; and the tale of how he, John Brand, right royally attired in the garb of old Gaul, presented a nosegay of roses ...Robert Louis Stevenson Henry ErskineThe Garb of Old GaulPrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945		Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Henry FawcettManual of Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Henry FearonNarrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Thro...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799"Of my earliest days at school I have little to say, but that they were very happy ones, chiefly because I was left at liberty, and in the vacations, to read whatever boo...William Wordsworth Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fi...Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1700-1799...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found some time for reading, and I almost always found the m...Francis Place Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print: Book


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