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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty or...Mr Murphy [n/a]Rambler, The Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'That ingenious and elegant gentleman's [Shenstone's] opinion of Johnson appears in one of his letters to Mr. Greaves, dated Feb. 9, 1760. "I have lately been reading one...William Shenstone Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
'[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'When in good humour he would talk of his own writings with a wonderful frankness and candour, and would ...Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Dr. Burney related to Dr. Johnson the partiality which his writings had excited in a friend of Dr. Burney's, the late Mr. Bewley, well known in Norfolk by the name of th...William Bewley Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - revered. That ample Repository of religious Truth, moral...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetration into human Nature; the Characters too so neatly, ...Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the ...Edward Morgan Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but th...E. M. Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles and Studies" before its original publication in 1876...Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and StudiesManuscript: proofs
1850-1899'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.'Oscar Wilde John Pentland MahaffyRambles and Studies in GreeceManuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 11 September 1845: 'Mrs Shelley found Italy for the first time, real Italy at Sorrento, she says. Oh that book ...Robert Browning Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842 and 184...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of work - written much of it in a state of pain that m...Leigh Hunt Mary ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 18...Print: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding James HiltonRandom HarvestPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to G. H. Lewes, 22 November 1847:] 'I have now read "Ranthorpe." I could not get it till a day or two ago; but I have got it and r...Charlotte Bronte George Henry LewesRanthorpePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'Mr Lewes mentioned in the last note I received from him that he had just ...		Charlotte Brontë George Henry LewesRanthorpePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "poetry that is merely imaginative and picturesque may ...Anna Seward Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. goes to Pisa. - finishes the Rape of the Lock to me in the Evening.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899 [Sitwell said] 'I used to read "The Rape of the Lock" at night under the bedclothes by the light of a candle. It's a wonder I didn't set myself on fire. I had memorized ...Edith Sitwell Alexander PopeRape of the Lock, ThePrint: Book


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