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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Charles Evans John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Reginald Robson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Ursula Unwin John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Charles Stansfield John Bunyan Print: Book
1900-1945'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'Vera Brittain John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book, Unknown
1900-1945'The only books he had were little nature-study notebooks, supplemented by his mother reading The Pilgrim's Progress aloud. Once she cheated by leaving out a lon...Alan Mathison Turing John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap...Clive Staples Lewis John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Gaywood giving evidence at the trial for theft of her servant Eleanor Clark at the Old Bailey, 21 October 1761: "Last Tuesday right she went away, and not coming ...Eleanor Clark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The book of my boyhood was, however, the "Pilgrim's Progress", a beautiful edition of which was given me by a paternal uncle. I used to read it from morning to night, ...John Leatherland John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here, owing to the fact that I had not yet discovered the depths of my Philosopher's incompetence, and we spent three weary days, relieved only by "The Pilgrim's P...Freya Stark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: Copious marginal updates throughout the text. Many relate to entries and are linked to the item by an * in the text but some are for people not in the direc...James Ker John BurkeA general and heraldic dictionary of the peerage a...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet[on composition]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Evans John BurroughsUnder the Apple TreesPrint: Book
1800-1849'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherin...Thomas De Quincey John ByromEpigram on the Feuds Between Handel and BononciniUnknown
1800-1849'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ... which she in turn copied in her letter to Catherin...Dorothy Wordsworth John ByromEpigram on the Feuds Between Handel and BononciniManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxJohn ByromThe Three Black CrowsUnknown
1850-1899[Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-ignorance" has ms note 'Ex. F.G. [?] August 8th 1858/...John CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading...Calvin.' Robert Louis Stevenson John CalvinunknownUnknown
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh John CampbellThe Universal HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man of much knowledge, and has a good share of imaginat...Samuel Johnson John CampbellHermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over O...Print: Book


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