√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 ?Just as the boat was leaving Dover, a breathless Bots put a letter from town, and ?The Examiner? into my hands, the latter of which, I verily believe preserved me from t... Charles Dickens The Examiner Print : Newspaper, Unknown1800-1849 Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806):
'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. Hunt's jokes are really wretched. I am more convinced... Devonshire family Leigh Hunt et al The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) thi... Thomas Carlyle The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The two Examiners came on Wednesday: we like them much.' Thomas Carlyle The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 1900-1945 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1... William Hale White William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1850-1899 1900-1945 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Eve of Saint Agnes", "... Edwin Muir William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1850-1899 'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, ... John Ruskin William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1850-1899 'Mother has been reading "The Excursion" lately.' Edith Lytton William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1900-1945 ‘Here I am beside a French canal, watching the day, and remembering with
an ache what Glostershire is in such a season as September, and with
whom I usually spent the... Ivor Bertie Gurney William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set forth in prose or verse, merely as the material for gra... anon William Wordsworth The Excursion (excerpts) Print : Book1900-1945 'The Excursion June 24th 1939.
H. R. Smith once again agreed to provide a route, & we had an excellent run
without going outside the boundaries of Berkshire... Bruce Dilks Victor Alexander The Excursion June 24th 1939 Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue: 24. 11. 39.
A Bruce Dilks in the chair.
1. Minutes of last [two meetings] read & approved.
[...... Victor Alexander Victor Alexander The Excursion June 24th 1939 Manuscript : Notebook1900-1945 Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
2. Account o...
Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson The Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways o... Manuscript : Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text.1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, Print : Book1800-1849 'Calls on Hookham and brings home Wordsworths Excursion of which we read a part - much disappointed - he is a slave'. Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth The Excursion, being a portion of the Recluse, a p... Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Mary reads the "Excursion" all day & reads the "History of Margeret" to PBS'. Mary Godwin William Wordsworth The excursion, being a portion of the recluse, a p... Print : Book1800-1849 'Read the Excursion & Madoc.' Mary Godwin William Wordsworth The Excursion, Being a portion of the Recluse, a p... Print : Unknown1800-1849 '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 Wordsworth The Excursion, Being a Portion of the Recluse, a P... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour... Thomas Turner John Nicholl The execrable practice of buying and selling livin... Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeated the poem to us.' William Edmonstoune Ayton William Edmonstoune Ayton The Execution of Montrose Print : Serial / periodical