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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester'Mary Shelley James ShirleyGamester, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that the boat would not cross today, so took an exceedingly...Robert Lindsay Mackay James Shirley'Death the Leveller'Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical margi...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oecono...Print: Book
1700-1799I have read, conversed, and thought much upon the subject, and would recommend to all who are capable of conviction, an excellent Tract by my learned and ingenious friend...Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke James SteuartDirleton's Doubts and Questions in the Law of Scot...Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808: 'I am glad that I mentioned the Castle of Indolence to you, as I am sure you ...Lady Harriet Cavendish James ThompsonThe Castle of IndolencePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808: 'I am glad that I mentioned the Castle of Indolence to you, as I am sure you ...Lady Stafford James ThompsonThe Castle of IndolencePrint: Book
1800-1849'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry, he was immediately enthralled by Thomson's evocati...John Clare James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more interesting than the fifty volumes of Wesley's Chri...Joseph Barker James Thomson Print: Book
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a...Jack Lawson James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, during these tepid gleams that Thomson speaks of so feeli...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ...Percy Bysshe Shelley James ThomsonCastle of Indolence, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799[opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with virtuous sentiments.'Anna Larpent James ThomsonEdward and ElinoraUnknown
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1800-1849
1850-1899		[Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus some ms notes in ink on binding page. The ink note...James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to ...Lucy Maud Montgomery James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, im...Thomas Carter James ThomsonSeasons, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa...Thomas Carter James ThomsonLiberty, a PoemPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of the Bible, I know not that I ever read any other bo...Thomas Carter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".'Joseph Hunter James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book


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