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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfier...Claire Clairmont Voltaire MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfier...Claire Clairmont William GodwinAn Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- & the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfier...Claire Clairmont Victor AlfieriMemoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct. 11th. Read Johanna D'Arc [i.e. Die Jungfrau von Orleans] with S-- [...] 'Saturday Oct. 13th. [...] read Johanna D Arc with S--'.Claire Clairmont and Percy Bysshe ShelleyJ. C. F. von SchillerDie Jungfrau von OrleansPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday October [...] 27 [...] Read Schillers Ghost [...] Seer.' [also records reading this text on 28 October 1825]Claire Clairmont J. C. F. von SchillerThe Ghost-SeerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Claire Clairmont William WordsworthThe Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a P...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Percy Bysshe Shelley Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient MarinerUnknown
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.' Claire Clairmont Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 22nd. [...] Return [from walking] at [...] 4. Read Greek [...] Sit up till one reading the Monk.' Claire Clairmont (classical) Greek textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '.Claire Clairmont unknown'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.'Claire Clairmont E. T. W. Hoffmann'Kreisleriana'Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday [...] June 1st. [...] Read Letters from Norway. [...] 'Friday June 2nd. [...] Read Rights of Woman & Letters from Norway. [...] 'Sunday June 4th. [...Claire Clairmont Mary WollstonecraftLetters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden...Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound interesting in a few years ? when the fashion has p...Gerald Moore Matthew PriorShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaustible treasury of lore and anecdote on the subject. ...Gerald Moore Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to leave for the Coast until about October. He expects to...Gerald Moore Niccolo MachiavelliHistory of FlorencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I suppose it has been done too often. In any case Bensham...Gerald Moore Leonard MerrickA Chair on the BoulevardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday. Lovely day. Walked about good deal. Pollard arrived. Fr. Read A Fleet in Being by Kipling. All well.'William Thomas Rudyard KiplingA Fleet in Being: Notes of Two Trips with the Chan...Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday. rose at 8, O'Clock, came to Po [Agnes Porter, governess], turned the Hour Glass and played with it.- read my Journal of Sepr 5, 1805, that you wrote for ...William Henry Fox Talbot John AikinEvenings at Home, Or, the Juvenile Budget OpenedPrint: Book


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