√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingto]n whenever you get there, with multifarious advice... Thomas Carlyle Johann Karl August Musaeus Volksmahrchen der Deutschen Print : BookManuscript : Letter1850-1899 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:]
''We found them here reading Mosheim. They are in the second volume, wh... Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall family Johann Lorenz von Mosheim ?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, fr... Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o... James Watson Johann Lorenz von Mosheim An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern Print : Book1800-1849 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo... John Stuart Mill Johann Lorenz von Mosheim An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, fro... Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Ludwig Tieck Phantasus Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Ludwig Tieck The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Nicolaus Tetens Philosophische Versuche Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Palingenesien von Jean Paul Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Museum von Jean Paul Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Jean Pauls Geist oder Chrestomathie der vorzuglich Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann Paul Friedrich Richter Das Kampaner Thal oder uber die Unsterblichkeit de Print : Book1850-1899 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l... George Gissing Johann Peter Eckerman Conversations of Goethe Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:
Charlotte Brontë Johann Peter Eckermann Conversations with Goethe Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 24 January - 18 February 1794: 'I need not tell you with what pleasure my frequent perusals of Werter have been attended. for s... Robert Southey Johann Wilhelm von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Print : Book1800-1849 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. Mary Smith Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : Book1900-1945 'At present I am reading Goethe’s conversations with Eckerman. they are nearly as good as Sam Johnson, though in an entirely different vein. You ought to read 'Wilhelm M... Arnold Bennett Johann Wolfgang Goethe Conversations of Goethe with Eckerman and Soret Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Print : Book
