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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Francis E. Pollard James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Frensham”, Northcourt Avenue, 21st Feb ’45
    Howard R. Smith in the chair

1. The minutes of the last meeting w...		Faith Miller James BridieMr Bolfry: a play in four scenesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones James BruceTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the...Print: Book
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser James BruceTravels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the...Print: Book
1700-1799'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Montagu felt "surfeited" with what she thought the point...Elizabeth Montagu James BruceTravels to discover the source of the Nile, in the...Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Bruce[narratives of travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser James Cook[Accounts of three voyages round the world]Print: Book
1700-1799Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fa...Frances Burney James CookVoyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter James Cook[narratives of voyages]Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:] 'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just finished them. The description of the savage inhabitan...Elizabeth Carter James CookA Voyage to the Pacific OceanPrint: Book
1850-1899In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmund Burke and the Annual Register' [Gaskell then prov...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Crossley'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not know that I ever read one from which my mind receive...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a charm on my benumbed imagination. Never have I been mo...Elizabeth Hamilton James CurrieLife of BurnsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what antecedent word he refers to. His book suggests two ...Benjamin Newton James DallawayOf Statuary and Sculpture among the AntientsPrint: Book
1900-1945'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.' Arnold Bennett James Douglas Print: Newspaper
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very ingenious book'.Samuel Johnson James DunbarEssays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Culti...Print: Book
1800-1849Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '1...Agnes Halkerston James DuncanScotch itinerary, containing the roads through Sco...Print: Book
1800-1849'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must cure them, or show them incurable. But you ought to k...Harriet Martineau James EsdaileMesmerism in India and its Practical Application i...Print: Book
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve...Chester Armstrong James Fenimore Cooper Print: Book
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh James FergusonHis Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Prin...Print: Book


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