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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mother a servant who read nothing but the Bible... Gre...George Gregory John Harries Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with his comments on spellings and punctuations [...] On ...Gabriel Harvey John HartAn OrthographiePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HaslamMedical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, aPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Haslam on Insanity....'Thomas Green John HaslamObservations on InsanityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are...Elizabeth Montagu John HawkesworthAn account of voyages...Print: Book
1700-1799'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are...Elizabeth Montagu John HawkesworthAn account of voyages undertaken... for making dis...Print: Book
1700-1799'Does your Ladiship see The Adventurer? I buy it; but have not had time to read but here and there one; But purpose from the Character judicious Friends give of them, to ...Samuel Richardson John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnso...Lady Bradshaigh John HawkesworthThe AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnso...Samuel Richardson John Hawkesworth[items in Cave's Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Read Hawkesworth's "Life of Swift"....'Thomas Green John HawkesworthLife of Swift [in Works of Swift?]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to John Horseman, 16-20 April 1794: 'Hawkesworth argues very strongly against indulging in these fantastical pleasures — they enervate the mind & by accus...Robert Southey John HawkesworthThe AdventurerPrint: Book
1700-1799'Let me add, that Hawkesworth's imitations of Johnson are sometimes so happy,that it is extremely difficult to distinguish them, with certainty, from the compositions of ...James Boswell John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthRival, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John Hawkesworth[Ode on life]Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAmurathPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want of Probability in the Story be excusable, for that se...Hester Lynch Thrale John HawkesworthAdventurer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In this [producing a biography of Johnson] he has not been very successful, as I have found upon a perusal of those papers, which have been since transferred to me. Sir ...James Boswell John HawkinsLife of Samuel JohnsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Letters were read from Mr Hawkins and Mr Burgess resigning membership in the Society'Alfred Rawlings John Hawkins[letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'It was so charming of you to send me your anthology,..............It is particularly interesting to me, because, although your anthology and my second, and third(forthco...Edith Sitwell John HaywardNineteenth Century Poetry - An AnthologyPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 2 May, 1797: 'I have a treasure in store for you. a little treatise in old English, very short, upon miracles — written by John Henderson...Robert Southey John HendersonTreatise upon MiraclesPrint: Book


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