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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it is the most agreeable & diverting thing in non-imagi...Arnold Bennett James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday May 23rd. [...] Read Boswell's Life of Johnson.' [records of reading this text also appear in entries for 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 May 1820]Claire Clairmont James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Boswell's life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - finish Life of Johnson'Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832: 'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson. I have been looking over it, and do no...Elizabeth Barrett James BoswellThe Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentioned in the journal are given separate entries based on...Percy Bysshe Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson LL.D.Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Boswell I am sure ten times - & hope to read it many more it is the most amusing book in the world, besides that I do love the kind hearted wise & Gentle Bea...Mary Shelley James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51): 'And so you are reading my Bozzy'.Henry Brougham James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underlined] compared to my present reading. I am reduced to...Anna Grosvenor James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel John...Print: Book
1900-1945' - I read Boswell's tour in the Hebrides and speculate agreeably on the probable difference between Boswell's conception of the Hebrides and yours - 'Vita Sackville-West James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".'Frank Smythe James BoswellA Life of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'[referring to a dispute over whether Johnson wrote certain papers in "The Adventurer"] Mrs Williams told me that, "as he had [italics] given [end italics] those Essays t...James Boswell James Boswell[account given to him by Mrs Williams]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'He kept the greater part of mine [letters] very carefully; and a short time before his death was attentive enough to seal them up in bundles, and ordered them to be deli...James Boswell James Boswell[letter to Johnson from Corsica]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the next week: that his respect for my little observati...Hester Lynch Thrale James BoswellJournal of a Tour to the HebridesManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est proprie communia dicere.[end italics]' Mr. Wilkes accord...John Wilkes James Boswell[notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johns...Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", which you was so goo...Alexander Dick James BoswellAn Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to Th...Print: Book
1850-1899'I idle finely. I read Boswell’s "Life of Johnson"[…]' Robert Louis Stevenson James BoswellLife of Samuel Johnson.Print: Book
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'I have just advanced so far towards recovery as to read a pamphlet; and you may reasonably suppose that the first pamphlet which I read...Samuel Johnson James BoswellLetter to the People of Scotland on the Present St...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'In the following lines, by that pious and most excellent of men, Dr Johnson, we are consoled with the assurance...James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 9 November 1803: 'I have at present a [italics]Johnson[end italics] mania upon me, which I hope you wil...Lady Harriet Cavendish James BoswellLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book


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