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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin...Claire Clairmont 'Anarcharsis'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'Claire Clairmont 'Anarcharsis'Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Jany. 28. [...] Read Anarcharsis.'Claire Clairmont 'Anarcharsis'Print: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:] 'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that the women there were remarkably chaste, unless the ...Elizabeth Carter 'ancient account of India'Print: Unknown
1800-1849Wednesday, 25 March 1829: 'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.'Anne Scott 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpher...Unknown
1800-1849Alfred Tennyson to Emily Sellwood (1839): 'I am housed at Mr Wildman's, an old friend of mine in these parts: he and his wife are two perfectly honest Methodists [...]...Alfred Tennyson 'anecdotes of Methodist ministers'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar...Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Animal Magnetism'Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.Claire Clairmont unknown'another Irish Pamphlet'Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:] 'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know it -- Pray amongst your French studies have you m...Elizabeth Carter Jean-Jacques Rousseau'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement aga...Print: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read some more of the "Edinburgh Review," but was litt...George Grote Imanuel Kant'Anthropology'Print: Book
1900-1945'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to discourage my hysterical pursuit of elusive definitions....Vera Brittain Plato'Apologia' and 'Meno'Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]: 'What have I been doing since I came here [a 'pretty place in Surry']? giving troubl...Catherine Talbot 'Arlequin'Print: Unknown
1850-1899[I have seen] 'Your "Art and Criticism", likewise there'. Robert Louis Stevenson Sidney Colvin'Art and Criticism' in Appleton's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker Col. Matthews'article on Hazlitt'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836: 'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review which I am reading with great pleasure. The artic...Lord Mahon Sir George Murray'article on Napier'Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy'
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mythology & with no knowledge of Indian life, to do justice...Rosamund Wallis Francis William Bain'Ashes of a God'Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821: 'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- happy for your sake, because, as you will, I dare sa...John Wilson Croker Francis Cohen'Astrology and Alchemy'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Happy days were spent in the little Twickenham garden, my father reading aloud passages of any book which struck him. Layard's Nineveh and Herschel's Astronomy were read...Alfred Tennyson Herschel'Astronomy'Print: Book
1800-1849'A second London season over, and [Lady Byron] and Ada made their factory-tour, the daughter [i.e. Ada] meanwhile studying hard at astronomy'.Ada Byron 'astronomy'Print: Book
1900-1945'I went to a play that would have appealed to you — "Disraeli", which you will remember to have seen reviewed in Punch's "At the play". If the real man was at all like ...Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon]'At the Play: "Disraeli"'Print: Serial / periodical


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