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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as ar...Edward Pordage Thomas WilsonThe Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as...Print: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive notes in this area are found in his copies of [...]...Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliThe Arte of WarrePrint: Book
1900-1945'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But] you will admit that Bourne's writing in its slight...Joseph Conrad George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt]The Ascending EffortPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book ["The Ascending Effort"] which in the course of the last few days I have opened and shut several times is not imaginative.'Joseph Conrad George BourneThe Ascending EffortPrint: Book
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his sister-in-law]. Feb 14 1910"; "Feb 21 1924". George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern wa...Print: Book
1900-1945''Finished "[The] Rose and Ring" (how satisfying) and turned over the "Assemblies of al-Hariri", which confirms my old opinion that there is but one book in Arabic and th...Ronald Storrs Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririThe Assemblies of al-HarariPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon maki...Thomas Carter [unknown]The Assembly's CatechismPrint: Book
1900-1945'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeum that no one was reading Dickens anymore: he trudge...Neville Cardus The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in po...John Ruskin The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read "Athenaeum"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845: 'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Athenaeum of today.'Harriet Martineau The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838: 'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talfourd, and desires to express to him her thankfulne...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdThe Athenian CaptivePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: "Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other rare treasures. The B.G.N. doesn't figure very solid...Henry James The Atlantic, including articles by Henry James an...Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month....anon The AttemptPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (May 1817): 'What a treat you have given to Mrs. B. and me in "Riley"! I never read anything so affecting and interesting. We cried ov...William and Mrs BlackwoodCaptain RileyThe Authentic Narrative of the loss of the America...Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf Archibald Hamilton RowanThe Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton RowanPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'Two little books that I read in my boyhood impressed and stimulated me greatly. They helped me in my efforts to live bravely and to use my life for noble ends. These wer...Thomas Burt Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Benjamin FranklinPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can take the trouble to quote from Leigh Hunt's memoirs ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In reading, nothing goes to the heart like any true account of a mother and son's love for one another, such as we find in that true book I have already spoken of ...William Henry Hudson Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book


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