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

	1800-1849	'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Mary Brunton	Self Control	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".'	Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford	Samuel Smiles	Self Help	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gre...	George Gregory	Samuel Smiles	Self Help	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have been reading Lavator on self knowledge, and like it much. I find it difficult to confine my attention to what I am reading; books tells us to think clearly and fi...	Elizabeth Gurney	Lavator	self knowledge	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t...		Walter Besant	Self or Bearer	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....	Charles Spencer Chaplin	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Self Reliance	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...	Joanne Jardine	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...	Esther Burney	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I read Self Countrol & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death. but I think the principal character charming & well suppo...	Charlotte Barrett	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 68 Northcourt Avenue 20th III 1935 Howard R. Smith in the chair 1. Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved ...	Ethel C. Stevens	Matthew Arnold	Self-Dependence	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficiently to what I am reading, to remember at all accura...	Elizabeth Gurney	John Mason	Self-knowledge: A Treatise	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at l...	Elizabeth Gurney	John Mason	Self-knowledge: A Treatise	Print: Book
	1900-1945	Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...	Virginia Woolf	Charles Ricketts	Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals o...	Print: Book
	1500-1599 1600-1699	'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on Galenic theory and the four humours [...] The inscri...	Gabriel Harvey	Jacob Hugkel	Semeiotice	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'.	[Mr] de Regis	Voltaire [pseud.]	Semiramis	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	David Friedlander	Sendschreiben an seine Hochwurden Herrn Oberconsis...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been reading them all in German ..."	Henry James	Ivan Turgenev	Senilia	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - the sort of approach he was learning to associate wi...	Philip Larkin	Julian Hall	Senior Commoner, The	Print: Book
	1850-1899 1900-1945	Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front flyleaf.	Vernon Lee	Charles F?r	Sensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de p...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...	Princess Charlotte	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book

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