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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale James ThomsonSeasons, The - 'Summer'Print: Book
1900-1945'Here one is amazingly comfortable: a beautiful house lent by two young bachelors, Finch-Hatton and Pixley: lovely Japanese hangings and enamel ware, Persian carpet...Francis Brett Young Oscar WildeSebastian MelmothPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nothing to put down these last two days unless I go back to my old practice of recording what I read, and which I rather think I left off because I read nothing and had ...Charles Greville CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' John Cole DavidSecond tour round a Bibliomaniac's libraryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.' Arnold Bennett Joseph ConradSecret Agent, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'He has infinite wit and a great turn for antiquarian lore as the publications of Kirkton etc. bear witness.'Walter Scott James KirktonSecret and True History of the Church of Scotland ...Print: Book
1900-1945'A very exciting book called "The Secret Battle" by APH. It is about the last war, and is rather pathetic in parts. I really oughtn't to be reading fiction these days b...Hilary Spalding A.P. HerbertSecret Battle, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. Mrs Robson read from "Fortitude" & Mrs Pollard from ...Mary Pollard Hugh WalpoleSecret City, ThePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Procopius of Caesarea Secret HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italics] she [italics]has been to me. The stories are very...Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Delarivier ManleySecret memoirs and manners of several persons of q...Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing without his authorisation, and much added to), apparently ...John Flamsteed John Flamsteedsections of catalogue of starsPrint: sheets
1800-1849
1850-1899		Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History") do look at the chapter last...Harriet Martineau LucasSecularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Have you read [Mr Lucas's book]? "Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History"... It altogether changes my impressions about the man I correspond...Harriet Martineau Samuel LucasSecularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of Histor...Print: Book
1600-1699"... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure ...Benjamin Tooke seditious bookPrint: unbound printed sheets
1900-1945'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it all the time, and came back and finished it, being ful...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestSeducers in EcuadorManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong but constructive criticism.Joseph Conrad Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley)Seems So! A Working Class View of PoliticsPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneSeignor verdero in his proper habitt,Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the fall of Sejanus'Mary Shelley Ben JonsonSejanus his FallPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 16th. [...] Read the fall of Sejanus -- [...] 'Tuesday April 18th. [...] Read Locke & fall of Sejanus. [...] 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Fin...Claire Clairmont Ben JonsonSejanus His FallPrint: Book


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