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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter Washington IrvingSketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPrint: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scripture reading, I like no books that do not make me laug...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945Fortunately books are fairly plentiful and I keep my own books (“Dombey & Son” and “Three Musketeers”) for the time when I am in a place which nobody has left any b...Arthur Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Arthur Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Margery Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, de Quincey -- in short, a browse. We looked at ?...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to Marino Faliero] ... I perceive (horresco referens [V...George Gordon Lord Byron Jane WaldieSketches Descriptive of ItalyPrint: Book
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh George KeateSketches from nature, taken and coloured on a jour...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839: 'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little while ago -- but not as Mr Chorley's. Henrietta [s...Elizabeth Barrett Henry Fothergill ChorleySketches of a Sea Port TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'Barbara Hofland Mrs S.C. HallSketches of Irish CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".'John Cole MacdiarmidSketches of NaturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Since my books have come I have read every day ... 100 or thereby pp of Stewart's Highland Regiments.'Robert Louis Stevenson David Stewart of GarthSketches of the Character, Manners, and Present St...Print: Book
1700-1799'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles the Fifth, for celebrating his funeral obsequies in hi...James Boswell Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of punishment, he mentions that of Madame Lapouchin, in Ru...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Years backward - he then begins gravely to argue about p...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849"Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) ....Horatio Nelson Helen Maria WilliamsSketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in t...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Sketchy BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A play-reading of Galsworthy's Skin-Game was then given. The members taking part were as follows Hillcrest R.H. Robson Amy, his wife Miss Marriage Jill his daughter M...Members of the XII Book clubJohn GalsworthySkin Game, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me very much -- Its principal charm is the naturalness of [...] its desc...Claire Clairmont Chretien-Hermann GambsSkoldUnknown


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