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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes li...Howard R. Smith Anthony TrollopePrime Minister, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner Daniel DobelPrimitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to ...Print: Pamphlet
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1800-1849		"John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the nineteenth century commenced: "'About now all my sto...John Clare Prince CherryPrint: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance"
1900-1945'I have just read Prince Hempseed for the first time. I do hope you don't mind my writing to you about it, because I think it is such a fine book and I was deeply moved b...Edith Sitwell Sydney SchiffPrince HempseedPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of these which she kept tied up in flat parcels, ready... unknownPrincess NovelettePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Alfred Lord TennysonPrincess, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling to the remotest part of my brain, and setting up a ...Virginia Stephen G. E. MoorePrincipia EthicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings of widows...This is the reverse of our system of in...Walter Scott T.R. MalthusPrinciple of Population
1850-1899'It [a child relative?s speculations about the nature of fairies] was a good deal in the vein of Herbert Spencer?s description of the primitive man, all this.'Robert Louis Stevenson Herbert SpenserPrinciples of BiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson Alfred MarshallPrinciples of EconomicsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam Benjamin CarpenterPrinciples of General and Comparative PhysiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a...George Gregory Charles LyellPrinciples of GeologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha...Lillian Faithfull and motherWilliam B CarpenterPrinciples of Mental PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence tempered by experience. Of course he continued to read...George Gissing William B. CarpenterPrinciples of Mental Physiology, With Their Applic...Print: Book
1800-1849[This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.]Adam Sedgwick William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ...Mary Wollstonecraft William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner.....Charles Darwin William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble Dr CombePrinciples of PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to...John Johnson John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: Book


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